Should Congress Protect Fashion Designers Against Imitations?

OpenCongress - Congress Gossip Blog: "The New York Times today ran a profile of fashion design house Foley & Corinna that neatly illustrates the paradox plaguing a bill in Congress to extend copyright protection to fashion designs. If passed, the Design Piracy Prohibition Act would end an approximately sixty-year period in which the fashion industry has existed without IP protection. But as today’s article illustrates, there may be a valid and defensible reason why the industry has existed so long without protection."