Ways with copyright registration, is the topic of this blog post in the Fashion Industry Law Blog. In order to protect your copyright designs, you need to prove you have registered your design with the Copyright Office. Find out how to register multiple copyrightable designs in a cost effective way.

Copyright Registration, Redux

Registering copyrightable designs as “unpublished” collections can be an efficient and cost effective way to register multiple two dimensional print patterns in a single registration. But to derive the benefits of registration, you need to be able to identify the designs included. Standard Fabrics International, Inc. (“Standard Fabrics”) learned that lesson the hard way, when it sued Louise Paris, Ltd. and its retail customer for copyright infringement of one of the fabric designs it claimed was part of its “Spring Summer, Collection 1”.
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