[LAU] Changed: Copyright laws and such

Neil C Smith neilcsmith.net at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 13 19:03:54 UTC 2013


On 13 February 2013 18:59, Al Thompson <althompson58 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/13/2013 09:52 AM, drew Roberts wrote:
>>>
>>>> Somehow fashion designers manage to make what seems to be decent money
>>>> designing original fashions even where they do not get copyright
>>>> protection for their fashion designs.
>>>>
>
> I haven't paid any attention to copyright as it has been applied to
> "fashions" or clothing, but a brief search gives thousands of hits of
> "counterfeit" purses and shoes coming out of China, which are then
> confiscated when they are found at various countries' port of entry.  It
> would seem that somehow those fashions are copyrighted by the designer.
>

That *may* have nothing to do with copyright as much as trademark law
and passing-off / fraud.

Neil
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