Whenever piracy is mentioned these days, people often tend to place it in a context of occuring either in the Music, Film or Software industries. This is the uncontrovertible extent of which these industries have championed their cause for a more comprehensive Intellectual Property Protections which they claim helps to substain the incentive for further creativity in their industry.
But strangely, as this paper entitled "The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design" by two law professors from UCLA and University of Virginia, it seems that the lack of IP management in the fashion industry doesn't seem to adversely affect it and even go so far as to posit that " because of this lack [of intellectual property rights] ... the industry remains vibrant and profitable ".
So in essence, they claim that it is piracy or actually copying which happens between fashion houses which creates the idea of trends and drive the industry into being more creative and keeps the trend cycles short. This pushes the creative talent in this industry to be on their toes all the time and keep on releasing interesting clothing designs.
Read the paper at Social Science Research Network
[via : Ars Technica]
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