Tag Archives: copyright
Copyright or Copywrong?
A short video on copyright just came over my Twitter feed today which got me thinking about the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act (good god) or as it’s also known the Fashion Copyright Law. The video is below but first, … Continue reading
Filed under COUNTERFEIT GOODS
Bloggers and the Politics of “Free” Labor
Depeche Mode once opined in “Blasephemous Rumors” that God’s got a sick sense of humor. I don’t know much about God, but it may be that the blogging gods have a funny kind of humor as well. Just as I … Continue reading
Filed under LABOR AND THE CREATIVE ECONOMY
Sonia Sotomayor: Fashion Police?
After only Day One completed of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the historic nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice,* we’ve already heard some of the more predictable commendations and attacks about her. Committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, … Continue reading
Filed under COUNTERFEIT GOODS
Copy Cats and Cheap Chic
We all know about the raft of allegations and lawsuits for intellectual copyright infringement aimed at Forever 21, Top Shop, H&M, and other discount retailers. (Fashionista regularly features sharp-eyed notes about the proliferation of such copies.) Because these retailers replicate … Continue reading
Chloe Sees Red over Topshop’s Yellow Dress
Should there be any doubt as to which direction fashion’s democratic impulses flow, one need only consider See By Chloé’s recent legal victory over Topshop to know that our inalienable “right” to fashion (to paraphrase Sarah Jessica Parker) has its … Continue reading
Filed under COUNTERFEIT GOODS, DEMOCRATIZATION OF FASHION
