{"id":70,"date":"2010-12-17T07:30:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2010-12-17T07:30:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:30:02","slug":"innovative-design-protection-and-piracy-act-heads-to-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/ip\/copyrights\/innovative-design-protection-and-piracy-act-heads-to-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Act heads to the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As recently reported on Sheppard Mullin&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fashionapparellawblog.com\/2010\/12\/articles\/changes-in-law\/fashion-forward-idppa-gains-unanimous-approval-of-senate-judiciary-committee\/print.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Fashion Apparel Blog<\/a>,&#8221; two weeks ago, the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Act (\u201cIDPPA\u201d) (S. 3728),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fashionapparellawblog.com\/2010\/08\/articles\/enforcement-of-fashion-laws\/the-innovative-design-protection-and-privacy-prevention-act-will-design-protection-be-in-vogue-in-congress\/\">which was introduced by Senator Charles Schumer (NY) on August 6, 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>If, before the recess, consideration of this bill by the full Senate leads to the passing of the IDPPA, the fashion industry will have cause to really celebrate for New Year&#8217;s parties. \u00a0The amendments to the Copyright \u00a0Act which are included in the bill would introduce a\u00a0\u201csubstantially identical\u201d standard to protect, at least for a three-year term,\u00a0original and\u00a0innovative\u00a0 fashion and accessory designs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amendments to the Copyright  Act which are included in the  Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Act would introduce a \u201csubstantially identical\u201d standard to protect, at least for a three-year term, original and innovative  fashion and accessory designs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,10,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xROl-18","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}