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By Freakonomics

Kal Raustiala, a professor at UCLA Law School and the UCLA International Institute, and?Chris Sprigman, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, are?experts in?counterfeiting and intellectual property.

Kal Raustiala wins Council on Foreign Relations book award.

They have been?guest-blogging for us about copyright issues. Today, they write about new efforts to extend copyright law to the fashion industry.
The Private Interest in Public Laws
By Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman

In previous posts, we wrote about knockoffs, a widespread practice in the fashion industry.

American law does not prohibit copying fashion designs. Paradoxically, the payoff from free copying has been enormous.

Today, they write about copyrighting and football.

Today, they write about copyrighting and football.

Kal Raustiala wins Council on Foreign Relations book award.

The popular global health minor of the UCLA International Institute brings together Bruins Kal Raustiala, director of the Burkle Center for International.

His new book is The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Spurs Innovation, co-authored with UCLA law professor Kal Raustiala.

Skills and Expertise: Global Governance, International Law, International Politics, Global Studies.

Copying helps set trends (you can’t know it’s a trend until it’s been copied) and then helps destroy them – once a design has been widely copied, the fashion-forward hop on to the next new thing. This is the familiar fashion cycle.

What’s less obvious is th