While New York Fashion Week marches on, let’s take a moment
to look at where the future of the fashion industry should and shouldn’t go.
Should: Into the world of 3D printing.
Shouldn’t: Into the world of harsher copyright protection.
Over the weekend, the
3D printing group Shapeways kicked off
Fashion Week with the unveiling of a collaboratively designed 3D printed gown.
The metallic creation, modeled by Dita Von Teese and designed by Francis Bitoni
and Michael Schmidt (of Lady Gaga’s famous bubble dress), exhibited printing
technology that suggests a fashion forward future of extraordinary creativity from
within the industry.
That is, if Congress doesn’t pass a law applying copyright
protection to clothing designs.
Currently,
fashion is one of the best examples of an industry with low intellectual
property protections, yet high creativity and ingenuity. But the Innovative
Design Protection Act, introduced in the fall of 2012 by New York State Senator
Chuck Schumer, would have suppressed this celebrated creativity by introducing
strict copyright laws enforced through lawsuits. And let’s all agree that
lawyers and fashion can often be a combination that, well, clashes.
By giving clothing design owners the right to take legal
action against competitors, successful large designers could sue small, new,
lawyer-less designers out of business. The fashion industry relies on a
constant stream of new faces in the design world bringing ideas to advance
creatively each season. If new designers (like 3D printing engineers Shapeways)
are pushed out of the competition, fashion will suffer.
Schumer’s Fashion Copyright Bill gained fast approval in the
Senate when it was introduced this fall. Though the bill was not approved in
the 112th Congress and thus must be reintroduced, its Congressional
acceptance poses a threat to an innovative fashion industry. Another fashion
copyright bill could appear in the 113th Congress, and with it,
excessively repressive copyright laws on clothing.
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama
acknowledged that 3D printing “has the potential to revolutionize how we make
almost everything.” A fashion copyright bill would inhibit truly revolutionary
fashion, whether sewn or 3D printed. Let’s ensure that Fashion Week continues
to be a celebration of the season’s innovative designs on the runway and not an
ugly legal battle in the copyright office.
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to look at where the future of the fashion industry should and shouldn’t go.
Should: Into the world of 3D printing.
Shouldn’t: Into the world of harsher copyright protection.
Over the weekend, the
3D printing group Shapeways kicked off
Fashion Week with the unveiling of a collaboratively designed 3D printed gown.
The metallic creation, modeled by Dita Von Teese and designed by Francis Bitoni
and Michael Schmidt (of Lady Gaga’s famous bubble dress), exhibited printing
technology that suggests a fashion forward future of extraordinary creativity from
within the industry.
That is, if Congress doesn’t pass a law applying copyright
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Currently,
fashion is one of the best examples of an industry with low intellectual
property protections, yet high creativity and ingenuity. But the Innovative
Design Protection Act, introduced in the fall of 2012 by New York State Senator
Chuck Schumer, would have suppressed this celebrated creativity by introducing
strict copyright laws enforced through lawsuits. And let’s all agree that
lawyers and fashion can often be a combination that, well, clashes.
By giving clothing design owners the right to take legal
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lawyer-less designers out of business. The fashion industry relies on a
constant stream of new faces in the design world bringing ideas to advance
creatively each season. If new designers (like 3D printing engineers Shapeways)
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Schumer’s Fashion Copyright Bill gained fast approval in the
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the 112th Congress and thus must be reintroduced, its Congressional
acceptance poses a threat to an innovative fashion industry. Another fashion
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excessively repressive copyright laws on clothing.
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama
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Shouldn’t: Into the world of harsher copyright protection.
Over the weekend, the
3D printing group Shapeways kicked off
Fashion Week with the unveiling of a collaboratively designed 3D printed gown.
The metallic creation, modeled by Dita Von Teese and designed by Francis Bitoni
and Michael Schmidt (of Lady Gaga’s famous bubble dress), exhibited printing
technology that suggests a fashion forward future of extraordinary creativity from
within the industry.
That is, if Congress doesn’t pass a law applying copyright
protection to clothing designs.
Currently,
fashion is one of the best examples of an industry with low intellectual
property protections, yet high creativity and ingenuity. But the Innovative
Design Protection Act, introduced in the fall of 2012 by New York State Senator
Chuck Schumer, would have suppressed this celebrated creativity by introducing
strict copyright laws enforced through lawsuits. And let’s all agree that
lawyers and fashion can often be a combination that, well, clashes.
By giving clothing design owners the right to take legal
action against competitors, successful large designers could sue small, new,
lawyer-less designers out of business. The fashion industry relies on a
constant stream of new faces in the design world bringing ideas to advance
creatively each season. If new designers (like 3D printing engineers Shapeways)
are pushed out of the competition, fashion will suffer.
Schumer’s Fashion Copyright Bill gained fast approval in the
Senate when it was introduced this fall. Though the bill was not approved in
the 112th Congress and thus must be reintroduced, its Congressional
acceptance poses a threat to an innovative fashion industry. Another fashion
copyright bill could appear in the 113th Congress, and with it,
excessively repressive copyright laws on clothing.
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama
acknowledged that 3D printing “has the potential to revolutionize how we make
almost everything.” A fashion copyright bill would inhibit truly revolutionary
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Shouldn’t: Into the world of harsher copyright protection.
Over the weekend, the
3D printing group Shapeways kicked off
Fashion Week with the unveiling of a collaboratively designed 3D printed gown.
The metallic creation, modeled by Dita Von Teese and designed by Francis Bitoni
and Michael Schmidt (of Lady Gaga’s famous bubble dress), exhibited printing
technology that suggests a fashion forward future of extraordinary creativity from
within the industry.
That is, if Congress doesn’t pass a law applying copyright
protection to clothing designs.
Currently,
fashion is one of the best examples of an industry with low intellectual
property protections, yet high creativity and ingenuity. But the Innovative
Design Protection Act, introduced in the fall of 2012 by New York State Senator
Chuck Schumer, would have suppressed this celebrated creativity by introducing
strict copyright laws enforced through lawsuits. And let’s all agree that
lawyers and fashion can often be a combination that, well, clashes.
By giving clothing design owners the right to take legal
action against competitors, successful large designers could sue small, new,
lawyer-less designers out of business. The fashion industry relies on a
constant stream of new faces in the design world bringing ideas to advance
creatively each season. If new designers (like 3D printing engineers Shapeways)
are pushed out of the competition, fashion will suffer.
Schumer’s Fashion Copyright Bill gained fast approval in the
Senate when it was introduced this fall. Though the bill was not approved in
the 112th Congress and thus must be reintroduced, its Congressional
acceptance poses a threat to an innovative fashion industry. Another fashion
copyright bill could appear in the 113th Congress, and with it,
excessively repressive copyright laws on clothing.
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama
acknowledged that 3D printing “has the potential to revolutionize how we make
almost everything.” A fashion copyright bill would inhibit truly revolutionary
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