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Design Piracy Prohibition Act
To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide protection for fashion design.
4/25/2007--Introduced.
Design Piracy Prohibition Act - Extends copyright protection to fashion designs. Excludes from such protection fashion designs that are embodied in a useful article that was made public by the designer or owner more than three months before the registration of co more...
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| April 25, 2007 |
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March 10, 2008 Warring fashion associations fail to compromise on copyright ...
Womenâs Wear Daily is reporting that the American Apparel & Footwear Association and the Council of Fashion Designers of America have failed to meet a compromise on legislative language that would amend HR 2033, a bill that would ...
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March 07, 2008 Is Congress promoting the progress of science and the useful arts?
However, in the fashion industry, Congress (unlike its counterparts in the EU) has resisted providing designers with any protection for their designs. However, that could change if HR 2033 is enacted into law. Something that looks more ...
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February 28, 2008 Thanks for the help, PTO
... one hour chat is: âonce you go to an attorney, how do you protect your idea from them?â Funny. I asked a question Iâve been curious about for a while:. question2.jpg. Interesting. I wonder how this factored in to HR 2033 and S. 1957.
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Women's Wear Daily is reporting that two of the major fashion industry associations were unable to meet agreement on the details of the legislation. There were too many unintended consequences.
The WWD breaking news story is here:
<http://wwd.com/issue/article/123288>
Just blogged on it here:
<http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1437>
This is also S.1957
Also, to anyone thinking of supporting this bill, please look at and understand trademark law and patent law a bit first, and explain why we need to change the scope of copyright law to specifically address the fashion industry. Patents and trademarks provide enough protection, meanwhile the whole system is enough of a mess that we don't need to start giving out patent and trademark rights through copyright law to specific industries.
It would be more appropriate to work on a way to make a simple fast track 3 year patents for the fashion industry that wouldn't require nearly the expense or difficulty of a full 17 year patent.
They are changing the wrong law. Make them get it right and oppose this bill.
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