Fashion Law London in the News

An article published by The Irish Times on 30 March 2021 features a commentary that Fashion Law London's Eleonora Rosati has offered in relation to the alleged copying, by Guess, of Telfar's award-winning "the shopping bag". Here's an extract from the article:

"Eleonora Rosati, a professor of intellectual property law, believes that social media calling out plagiarism could help stamp it out. “Public backlash may also contribute to triggering a change in fashion houses’ approaches and strategies,” she said. “As well as increasing the broader understanding of the importance of respecting others’ creative work and in the case of cultural appropriation, cultural history.”

An article published by The Guardian on 29 March 2021 features a commentary that Fashion Law London's Eleonora Rosati has offered in relation to the alleged copying, by Guess, of Telfar's award-winning "the shopping bag". Here's an extract from the article by Priya Elan:

"Eleonora Rosati, a professor of intellectual property law, believes that social media calling out plagiarism could help stamp it out.

“Public backlash may also contribute to triggering a change in fashion houses’ approaches and strategies,” she said. “As well as increasing the broader understanding of the importance of respecting others’ creative work and in the case of cultural appropriation, cultural history.”

Reporting on the recent promotion of Fashion Law London Co-Founder Eleonora Rosati to Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University, leading Swedish legal publication Dagens Juridik also mentioned Fashion Law London. We're always happy to be in the news: tack så mycket!

Award-winning intellectual property blog The IPKat hosted a report, prepared by Vito Spedito, on the online event held by Fashion Law London on 10 December 2020 and titled Fashion Reinassance - A Unique Year in Review.

An article published by The Guardian on 18 December 2020 features a commentary that Fashion Law London's Eleonora Rosati has offered in relation to copying of fashion designs. Here's an extract from the article by Priya Elan:

“The border between copying and ‘homage’ is difficult to draw,” said Professor Eleonora Rosati from Fashion Law London. “Not each and every copying is a violation of legal rights: what is copied needs to be protected for there to be an infringement,” she said. “This leads me to the second reason, which is related to proving the infringement: unless one has a registered right, in order to sue someone successfully over alleged copying of a design, it’s necessary to prove access to one’s own design and copying thereof. Did they copy you or did they copy someone else?”