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Design Piracy Prohibition Act

A bill to amend title 17, United States Code, to provide protection for fashion design.

8/2/2007--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 cop more...

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August 02, 2007

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January 30, 2008 CFDA Fights Fashion Forgeries

CFDA Fights Fashion Forgeries January 29th, 2008 at 11: ... , Orrin Hatch and Hillary Clinton) introduced the S.1957 Design Piracy Prohibition Act in the United

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January 29, 2008 CFDA Fights Fashion Forgeries

Since last August, when a group of US senators (including Dianne Feinstein, Charles Schumer, Orrin Hatch and Hillary Clinton) introduced the S.1957 Design Piracy Prohibition Act in the United States Senate, the CFDA has been rallying ...

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October 08, 2007 Protection of Design with Copyright Law

L. Rev. 1687, 1718-21 (2006). [14] Id. at 1722. [15] Marshall, supra note 2 at 314. [16] Design Piracy Prohibition Act, HR 2033, 110th Cong. (2007). [17] Design Piracy Prohibition Act, S. 1957, 110th Cong. (2007).

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