Recycle apparel designs from manufacturer/retailers

Hi, I am Diong from Carnegie Mellon University who are currently doing a
market research for my Entrepreneurship class.

I think of recycling the old apparel designs from the retail stores/
apparel manufacturers. I would like to take the designs of some of the once
popular apparel products (of which are no longer in sale in the
marketplace), manufacture it for resale.

Can you please advice me how can I solicit or buy these designs from the
apparel manufacturers/retailers? I appreciate if you can tell me more about
the regulations/copyright issues I need to take into account?

Thank you for your time and effort.

Sheihhoe, Diong
Electrical Engineering Class of 2006
Carnegie Mellon University
(412) 862-3376

"Diong" <sdiong@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote in message
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>
> Can you please advice me how can I solicit or buy these designs from the
> apparel manufacturers/retailers? I appreciate if you can tell me more
about
> the regulations/copyright issues I need to take into account?
>

As I recall, Wal-Mart or maybe K-Mart won a case about copying apparel
designs. I think the court ruled that knock-offs are legal.


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Thanks McWebber for pointing out this valuable information. I wonder if
this applies only to the designs of the clothes currently out of
production; or it applies to all the designs in the current lines of
product?

Sincerely,
Diong

--On Wednesday, February 18, 2004 5:15 AM +0000 McWebber
<mcwebber@my-deja.com> wrote:

>
> "Diong" <sdiong@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote in message
> news:c0uigf0vpp@enews2.newsguy.com...
>>
>> Can you please advice me how can I solicit or buy these designs from the
>> apparel manufacturers/retailers? I appreciate if you can tell me more
> about
>> the regulations/copyright issues I need to take into account?
>>
>
> As I recall, Wal-Mart or maybe K-Mart won a case about copying apparel
> designs. I think the court ruled that knock-offs are legal.
>
>
> --
> McWebber
> No email replies read
> If someone tells you to forward an email to all your friends
> please forget that I'm your friend.
>
>




Sheih Hoe, Diong
Electrical Engineering Class of 2006
Carnegie Mellon University
sdiong@andrew.cmu.edu
(412) 862-3376

"McWebber" <mcwebber@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> "Diong" <sdiong@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote in message
> news:c0uigf0vpp@enews2.newsguy.com...
> >
> > Can you please advice me how can I solicit or buy these designs from the
> > apparel manufacturers/retailers? I appreciate if you can tell me more
> about
> > the regulations/copyright issues I need to take into account?
> >
>
> As I recall, Wal-Mart or maybe K-Mart won a case about copying apparel
> designs. I think the court ruled that knock-offs are legal.
>

Here's a couple of links I found that make for interesting reading:

http://www.ffdi.org/fdi_html/news-scr.html
http://articles.corporate.findlaw.co...pertylaw_1_236
http://www.troutmansanders.com/mc/ip12199-p.html

More at
http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...t+court+ruling

--
McWebber
"Richter points to the lack of legal action against his company as proof
that he's operating appropriately."
Information Week, November 10, 2003