Does Fashion Need Copyright Protection?; New York Times, 5/27/10

Catherine Rampell, New York Times; Does Fashion Need Copyright Protection?:

"Johanna Blakley, of the University of Southern California’s Norman Lear Center, recently gave a TED talk on the “culture of copying” in fashion, and why this industry (in addition to those for some other creative works, like food preparation) has been able to thrive even without copyright protection."

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/does-fashion-need-copyright-protection/?scp=1&sq=copyright&st=cse