CRI 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter -: Anne Klein, Fashion Design, Copy Control
14 Jan 2017
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Week #7 readings: the piracy paradox: innovation and intellectual property in. Fashion design by kal raustiala and christopher sprigman, virginia law review. The fashion industry produces a huge variety of creative goods in markets larger than those for movies, books, music, and most scientific innovations, and does so without strong ip protection. The fashion industry profits by repeatedly originating creative content, but the industries principal creative element - its apparel designs - is outside the domain of ip law. Standard theory of ip rights predicts that a lot of copying will destroy the incentive for new innovation, yet fashion firms continue to innovate at a rapid clip (opposite from what is predicted by the standard theory) Fashion firms take sig. , costly steps to protect value of their trademarked brands, but accept that appropriation of designs is a fact of life. better fashion, an even larger category that consists of moderately priced apparel (anne klein, ann taylor, etc. )
