The Clothing Industry And Fashion Association Of The United States Proposed The Fashion Original Design Protection Bill.

The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) and the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), at the hearing held by the US Congress in July 15th, expressed support for the 3 year copyright protection act to promote fashion design, and AAFA and CFDA senior executives said the bill was expected to be Counterfeit Problems bring about targeted solutions.

The newly proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act (IDPPPA) is launched to protect the intellectual property rights of fashion design. Once the bill is passed, fast fashion retailers imitating high priced original brand design will no longer be legal.

The representative of the US Bob Goodlatte said that fashion design was not protected by traditional intellectual property rights. Therefore, there is a need for a source of law to defend original designs. He added that because the fashion design product life cycle is very short, the IDPPPA act can provide a special 3 year protection period for the fashion industry. Mission Runway The maximum amount of infringement damages is $50000 or a fine of $1 per counterfeit product.

AAFA Kurt Courtney, a government relations manager at the House Judiciary Committee's intellectual property rights, competition and Internet Subcommittee (Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition Property), explains that it provides a key solution to the problem of original design counterfeiting.

But the Courtney manager also said that the bill was designed to protect genuine original designs, and did not cover widespread problems such as counterfeiting. Indeed, basic clothing belonging to the public domain (unprotected property) is trousers Shirts, socks or underwear are not in the category of IDPPPA protection. Courtney manager also said that the bill provides a clear and understandable framework for designers to enable designers to execute their original designs. At the same time, the bill contains multiple protection to ensure that these same types of designers can freely use the prevailing trend to seek inspiration without the chilling effect.

In 2006, the United States proposed the "Design Piracy Prohibition Act" to provide original fashion design and new copyright protection, but it was suspected that it would distort the quality designer, execute the high cost, and easily lead to litigation in the industry.

According to the US Customs and Border Protection Bureau (CBP), counterfeit goods cause us $200 billion to US $250 billion in sales losses; in 2005, CBP seized 38% of all counterfeit products.

Goodlatte members pointed out that the annual output value of the US fashion industry is US $340 billion. Besides the direct related garment manufacturing work, we also create many printing, dyeing, transportation, distribution, advertising, publicity, procurement and zero.

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