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dc.contributor.authorRockett, Eleanor
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-21T09:02:30Z
dc.date.available2019-06-21T09:02:30Z
dc.date.issued2019
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Rockett, E. (2019). 'Trashion: An Analysis of Intellectual Property Protection for the Fast Fashion Industry', The Plymouth Law & Criminal Justice Review, Vol. 11, p. 80-102.

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dc.identifier.issn2054-149X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/14349
dc.description.abstract

Intellectual property law strives to provide a climate for invention, ingenuity and imagination to prosper. The standard theory, featured prominently in relevant international and national IP law regimes, is that copyists stifle the incentive for innovation. Yet, in an industry with copying at its heart, firms are prospering contrary to the above standard. This is fashion and, arguably, copying is what it is all about, after all. This paper examines how intellectual property theory works in the fashion industry and explores the idea that copying designs stimulates fashion innovation, thus generating a ‘piracy paradox’. Further, it aims to scrutinise the pertinent theses of induced obsolescence, flocking and differentiation, suggesting an analysis of the interaction between intellectual property rights, economics and competition law.

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dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Plymouthen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectintellectual propertyen_US
dc.subjectfashion industryen_US
dc.subjectdesignen_US
dc.subjectcopyrighten_US
dc.titleTrashion: An Analysis of Intellectual Property Protection for the Fast Fashion Industryen_US
plymouth.volume11
plymouth.journalThe Plymouth Law & Criminal Justice Review


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