It has been over a year since my last update on the fashion copyright issue. Over at TechDirt, there is an interesting posting on the backlash - Fashion Designers Realizing New Fashion Copyright Would Cause Serious Harm To Business. As I've noted some time ago, there has been some great work on what is called the "negative space" issue -- areas of innovation that flourish without traditional IP. High fashion is a case in point (for example see The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design).
By the way, I wouldn't take the poll on the TechDirt site very seriously. It is hardly an accurate indicator. But the fact that the little guys are pushing back on this makes for a very interesting case study.
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