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IP in the fashion world is a curious thing: READ this cool story of a Savile Row tailor who said “yes” to a writer who wanted to copy one of his signature jackets. Then WATCH Tom Ford‘s take on “The...
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Lear Center Deputy Director Johanna Blakley delivered a witty and incisive talk at the 2010 TEDxUSC about how the fashion industry flourishes creatively and financially without the protection of...
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Ready to Share, the Lear Center’s landmark event on fashion and the ownership of creativity, explored the fashion industry’s enthusiastic embrace of sampling, appropriation and borrowed inspiration,...
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In the September 9, 2003 issue of The Christian Science Monitor, Lear Center Senior Fellows David Bollier and Laurie Racine explore why fashion, film, and music take such radically different approaches...
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In August 2003, The Lear Center and Diane Watson, chair of the Congressional Entertainment Caucus, held the first Los Angeles Entertainment Caucus Hearing to address FCC ownership rules, piracy,...
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I had to attend the Struktur conference vicariously this year, but I had the great fortune of attending this creative summit for active, outdoor and urban design last year. The organizers had...
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Lear Center Senior Fellow David Bollier and Robert McChesney address the changing politics of the media, technology and culture, including how corporations misuse copyright and trademark law to stifle...
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Remarks by Lear Center Senior Fellow David Bollier, an expert on intellectual property law, on the tensions between artists, creativity, content distributors, and profits. Prepared for the Lear...
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Duke Law Professor Jennifer Jenkins and intellectual property lawyer Christine Cox explore the relationship between fashion and various U.S. intellectual property regimes, examining why fashion design...
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