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Intellectual property rights on creativity and heritage: the case of the fashion industry

Droits de propriété intellectuelle, créativité et patrimoine : le cas de la mode

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Recently, as different projects aiming to define and reinforce property rights in the fashion industry have been elaborated and discussed, a lot of papers have been dedicated to the question of property rights in this industry. Our paper considers the problems from a specific point of view; it focuses on the relation between property rights and creativity. If property rights allow the allocation of the majority of standard industrial goods without any special difficulty, however, when they are applied to creative goods, new problems arise. Then, for us, the persistence of a low system of IPRs in the fashion industry does not mainly derive from its efficiency but from the characteristics of the inputs that are used in the creative production process. They constitute strong constraints for defining, entitling, legitimating, enforcing, valuating and exchanging property rights. Thus, the different economic actors develop different kinds of strategic behaviour in order to obtain earnings and can try to protect copyrights, trademarks, new assets, old assets (heritage), private or collective assets, and so on. The institutional characteristics of this specific industry—such as the models of management, the type of ownership, the size of the firms, … lead to different historical models of management through IPRs. Peculiarly, the financial groups that integrate fashion into the new luxury industries currently try to implement new IPRs and to move towards a stronger system of IPRs but the management model of the street fashion puts an obstacle to this project.
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hal-02615221 , version 1 (22-05-2020)

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Christian Barrère, Sophie Delabruyère. Intellectual property rights on creativity and heritage: the case of the fashion industry. European Journal of Law and Economics, 2011, 32 (3), pp.305-339. ⟨10.1007/s10657-011-9230-2⟩. ⟨hal-02615221⟩
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