On 13 February 2013 18:59, Al Thompson <althompson58@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Neil C Smith Artist : Technologist : Adviser http://neilcsmith.net Praxis LIVE - open-source, graphical environment for rapid development of intermedia performance tools, projections and interactive spaces - http://code.google.com/p/praxis OpenEye - specialist web solutions for the cultural, education, charitable and local government sectors - http://openeye.info _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
