 2196 was introduced on April 30, 2009, by Representative Delahunt and twenty-three co-sponsors.The bill was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary on the same day and then stalled in committee.Currently, fashion may only be protected by copyright to the extent that its shape is non-utilitarian enough to qualify as a creative "sculpture," or to the extent that a design, pattern, or image on the clothing qualifies as "pictorial" or "graphic."