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•  tags  Sprigman, Christopher. "Fashion Copyright,
'Corruption,' and the Unheard Consumer." Public Knowledge Blog.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1404. February 20, 2008.
This blog provides some very useful insight into how the fashion
industry works and the corruption plauging the industry. The
fashion industry's success can be attributed to the cyclical
nature of consumption. Basically, copying helps to set trends,
trends lead to consumption, more copying destroys that same
trend due to overexposure, and the industry moves on to new
trends. Therefore, copying does not harm the process; it is the
process that creates profits in fashion. Why then would anyone
want to destroy the process that generates money? Sprigman
answers this question by accusing the Council for Fashion
Designers of America of corruption and selfishness. The CFDA is
the group that is promoting copyright laws for fashion design.
However, the CFDA only represents a small