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Design Copyright: The Latest Judicial Hint

BY | May 28, 2013

Scott Hemphill, Jeannie Suk, May 28, 2013 Earlier this year, in an important copyright ruling, the Supreme Court dropped a puzzling clue about copyright for designs that merits examination. In…

Scott Hemphill, Jeannie Suk, May 28, 2013

Earlier this year, in an important copyright ruling, the Supreme Court dropped a puzzling clue about copyright for designs that merits examination. In an opinion authored by Justice Breyer, the Court’s foremost copyright scholar, the Court posited a “design copyright” for a “dress” made in China and then sold in the United States. The statement is striking because courts have traditionally denied the copyrightability of fash

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