I
pride myself on being a man of substance. A wonk. A nerd, even. And
like most nerds, I don’t have a great eye for fashion. So I ask this
question seriously: what did you think of Chelsea Clinton’s Vera Wang wedding dress? Want to buy it? What if I can sell it to you really, really cheap?
On Aug. 5, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced S.3728: the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act. He’s got 10 cosponsors—including three Republicans—and a big idea: to extend copyright protections to the fashion industry, where none currently exist. That’s right: none. I—well, not I, but someone who can sew—can copy Vera Wang’s (extremely expensive) dress and sell it to you right now (for much less), and Wang can’t do a thing about it.
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Author: Ezra Klein
