Dress Codes Fashioning Intellectual

This book addresses the social, commercial, legal and cultural relationship between fashion and its protection through an interdisciplinary approach to the application of the law.

List of contents

Introduction: The Art of Fashion
Chapter 1: A Time and a Place
Chapter 2: A Taste for Business
Chapter 3: The Properties of Fashion
Chapter 4: Timeless Pieces
Chapter 5: In Fashion
Chapter 6: The Culture of Fashion
Chapter 7: Identity Shows
Conclusion

About the author

Johanna Gibson is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and former Director (2007-2014) of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. She was also Director of the independent research charity, the Intellectual Property Institute (IPI) from 2010-2013. Much of Gibson's research is concerned with intellectual property and socio-economic development. She has consulted to the European Commission on international knowledge transfer, the European Patent Office on future patent policy, and the UK Intellectual Property Office. Gibson has particular research interests in legal theory and intellectual property law, traditional knowledge and cultural diversity, and the relationship between intellectual property systems and the narration of culture and innovation. Gibson has published widely in leading journals and edited collections and is the author of four books, all published with Ashgate.

Summary

This book addresses the social, commercial, legal and cultural relationship between fashion and its protection through an interdisciplinary approach to the application of the law.

Product details

• Authors: Johanna Gibson, Professor Johanna Gibson, Johanna Gibson
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2016
• EAN: 9781472470072
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-7007-2
• Series: Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture; Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / Corporate, LAW / Intellectual Property / General, Fashion & beauty industries, Social Law, intellectual property law, Company law, Fashion and beauty industries, Social law and Medical law