http://abcnews.go.com/Business/FunMoney/story?id=2442802&page=1
Designers Fight Knockoffs
Designers Seek Copyright for Fashion but Some Say That Could Kill the
Industry
See the following:
The bill can be found in
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.5055:
the copyright office's response to the bill is at the following address
http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat072706.html
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| If the case is made for fashion design protection, we believe that H.R.
| 5055 offers an appropriate, balanced legislative proposal. We have
| suggested some minor amendments that we believe would improve the
| legislation, and we believe that some of the amendments included in
| H.R. 5055 and in our statement above are worthy of consideration whether
| or not fashion design legislation is enacted.(54)
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