Fashion & Intellectual Property

Fashion is a three trillion dollar a year industry with a 100% participation rate. So how do companies like Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren, Gucci, and Christian Louboutin promote their brands globally while still protecting their designs?
To what extent are creators, from individual fashion designers to million-dollar brands, protected under intellectual property law? How do you balance protecting IP with fostering innovation? Lawyers, law professors, and industry experts discuss the role of intellectual property in the fashion industry, explaining three recent cases that continue to spark debate on design protection in the United States.
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2018 Seattle Fashion Film Festival
-Winner, Best Documentary
2018 Madrid International Film Festival
- Nominee for Best Short Documentary
- Nominee for Best Director of a Short Documentary
2018 Film Miami Fest
- Semi-Finalist
2018 Aesthetica Short Film Festival
2018 Chelsea Fashion Film Festival
2018 Fashion Film Festival Chicago
2018 DAMN! Film Series
2018 Miami Fashion Film Festival
2018 Fashion FIlm Festival Milano
2018 Milan Lombardy International Film Festival
2018 Greenwich Village Film Festival
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As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.
Featuring:
- Leila Amineddoleh, Amineddoleh & Associates LLC
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- Jura Zibas, Wilson Elser
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- Lee Sporn, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP
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- Ryan Triplette, Canary Global Strategic
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- Howard Deutchman, Meridian Textiles
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- Susan Scafidi, Fordham University School of Law
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- Barbara Kolsun, Cardozo School of Law
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- Stephen Doniger, Doniger/Burroughs APC
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Related Links:
World Intellectual Property Organization Magazine: IP and Business: Intellectual Property in the Fashion Industry
www.wipo.int/wi...
Fortune: Are copyright trolls taking over the fashion industry?
fortune.com/201...
Bustle: Fashion Designs Aren’t Protected By Copyright Law, So Knockoffs Thrive As Designers Suffer
www.bustle.com...
TED: Johanna Blakley: Lessons From Fashion’s Free Culture
• Johanna Blakely: Lesso...
CREDITS:
Produced by: Samantha Schroeder
Written by: Samantha Schroeder, Elizabeth Claeys, Anna Wunderlich
Directed by: Matthew Ziegler & Samantha Schroeder
Director of Photography/Editor: Matthew Ziegler
Line Producer: Alex Yershov
Associate Producers: Elizabeth Claeys, Anna Wunderlich, Matt Wood, Daniel T. Richards
Second Unit DP: Matt Wood
Camera Operators: John Abbott, Alex Li, Andy Reynolds
Title Typography: Louise Fili
Special Thanks: Refinery Hotel

[@jannalee3789]

As a fashion designer I deeply appreciate this kind of informative high quality video. Thank you so much 😊

[@SEllis-dk1ld]

Very interesting discussion...fashion can be protected by design patent in the US and internationally under the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Protection of Industrial Design.

[@martinkunev9911]

Saying that trademarks protect the consumer is a strech. Trademarks give information to the consumer so that they can make more informed decisions.
More copyright will not help consumers - it will only help those big rich designer companies become even richer.

[@TheMechanician]

If you can't stay in business without utilizing state violence, then you don't deserve to stay in business.
Ideas are not property.

[@nicolunia8892]

Great video! :)

[@valeriamarcolli1751]

Amazing

[@bajasolswimear1782]

Color should not be protected, unless perhaps combined with other identifiers. No one can make red soles? Give me a break. That's not intellectual property protection; it's a senseless monopoly that limits expression in any country.

[@av782]

Well it sounds a little bit ridiculous, there are arguments in both ways. But the protection in this case is a specific shade of red on the bottom of a shoe, not all shades of red.

[@shaniquajohnson4426]

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[@donnagjoka2587]

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