Fashion designers have long lamented the lack of copyright protection for their designs in the United States, but that may be about to change. The Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously adopted a bill to amend U.S. Copyright laws that would extend copyright protection to clothing, handbags, eyeglass frames and related articles.
Known as the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prohibition Act (IDPPPA) or Senate Bill 3728, this is the first bill extending copyright protection to the work of fashion designers to make it out of committee. The bill was introduced by U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., in August 2009, and is the successor to the broader and ill-fated Design Privacy Protection Act (DPPA), which never made it into law.
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