Techdirt: "Right after the big royal wedding a few months back, Susan Scafidi, the law professor who is one of the leading supporters of putting in place a totally unnecessary and economically damaging 'fashion copyright,' used the wedding to support her arguments for fashion copyright. She suggested how unfortunate it would be that Kate Middleton's wedding dress would now be knocked off and used by other brides. It seems the 'Kate Middleton's dress' example is popular among supporters of fashion copyright. In the NY Times, Steven Kolb, director of the Council for Fashion Designers of America (the main organization pushing for this bill), described Kate Middleton's wedding dress as the perfect example of what fashion copyright could protect:Mr. Kolb said that Kate Middleton’s wedding dress would probably be a good example
Interesting. Except... as Johanna Blakley points out, it turns out that Kate Middleton's dress... was a knockoff itself!"
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