Litigation
Dec. 9, 2016
Copyright peril for apparel manufacturers
While the apparel industry has been aflutter as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the protection the Copyright Act affords the graphic designs of cheerleader uniforms, the 9th Circuit has quietly but definitively increased the risk of doing business in California. By Todd Lander
Todd M. Lander
Rosen Saba LLPintellectual property, real estate, complex business litigation
Phone: (310) 282-1727
Email: tlander@rosensaba.com
Whittier School of Law
Todd M. Lander is an intellectual property, real estate and complex business litigator with Freeman, Freeman & Smiley, LLP.
The apparel industry has been aflutter in recent months as the U.S. Supreme Court entertained argument, and has since deliberated, on the protection the Copyright Act affords the graphic designs of cheerleader uniforms. The case, Varsity Brands v. Star Athletica, does indeed implicate potentially far reaching effects on the turbulent union of copyright law and the fashion world, one that has unleashed an avalanche of infrin...
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