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Any Idea Where I Could Find These Shorts?
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Ooh, that's a hot set, and much cheaper than the AP pair. I might have to treat myself when I have some extra money.
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Lol it's basically the same… knockoff indeed =D it definitely is hot
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Nope, there is no such thing as copyright infringement on a clothing design unless the clothing has some type of new utilitarian functionality. You can copyright a pattern design however, so don't buy a pattern and then try to sell what you make from that unless it has been significantly altered. I know that for illustration copyright the difference has to be at least 25% but for patterns I'm not sure. It is fine to draft your own pattern from pre-exsisting clothes though. My mother went to fashion design school for a time and I learned from her and lots of books so I've researched this specific. I am planning to open an Etsy shop eventually myself but dance clothes will not be my only focus.
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Oh and Amy – don't you know that if you tell someone NOT to click something that's just begging them to take a peek!? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif Those are seriously hot undies, thank goodness for knockoffs!
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I wish I would have inherited my mother knack for sewing. 🙁
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Hmm sounds a little odd… I mean, I'm pretty sure (in fact, certain) that I could make those exact shorts just from looking at the pictures; and I'm just a college fashion student, so presently I have no qualifications whatsoever. Had I been through the rest of college & uni, I could DEFINITELY take every design from their website, draft my own patterns for exact copies, and sell them at reduced prices. I could come up with a brand name like Agent Practeur or something that sounds slightly different but is still obviously related to Agent Provocateur, and sell them all in the same way. Yes some people would want the originals for the sake of having the originals, but not most, lol. Designs are copyrighted too; says so on the websites usually.
Not for the sake of arguing lol but it just seems like a really stupid thing NOT to copyright your designs when other people can so easily copy them!
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I'm not sure what the debate is because it's obvious this sort of thing does go on all the time. You can copyright a pattern, yes. You cannot copyright a style of clothing or garment itself. I know it sounds odd, but that's the law for you. If you take a Disney character and change it's eye color and hair color and call it something slightly different they can't do anything about it. It's not the same thing but you get the picture. Draft your own pattern and you win. You would have to somehow get to a designer's copy of the pattern itself to literally steal their design. Anyway, most designers do not wish to go around stealing other's exact designs because then they wouldn't be designers. Just imitators. That's not art, it's boring and lame (if that's your profession).
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