Curating Collections at a Small House Museum

Megan Martinelli is an assistant curator of apparel, accessories, and jewelry at the former home of Marjorie Merriweather Post in Washington D.C. where she curates two exhibitions per year. Prior to assuming that position, she worked in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Megan is a URI graduate

Fashion\u27s Brand Heritage, Cultural Heritage, and the Piracy Paradox

This Article explores the role that heritage has on our understanding of the appropriateness of intellectual property protection for fashion designs in light of Christopher Sprigman and Kal Raustiala’s seminal work in The Piracy Paradox. At times, heritage seems to both reinforce Sprigman and Raustiala’s argument that fashion thrives in a low-IP regime and, at other times, heritage challenges that argument. Taking Italian fashion design as a case study, this Article considers the intersection of brand heritage, cultural heritage, and intellectual property law and makes three central observations. First, that fashion designs reflecting brand heritage thrive in a low-IP regime. Second, that fashion designs might only benefit from a higher-IP regime in instances where we understand fashion designs not as brand heritage alone, but as part of a wider cultural heritage. Finally, understanding the relationship between copyright law and cultural heritage law is central to exploring how a higher-IP regime might benefit fashion designs today

The Ethics of Representation: Muslim Women Reenacting and Resisting Whiteness

This study examines Muslim women\u27s performances and embodiment of White femininity. It addresses invisibility/visibility and problematic rhetorical constructs for re-securing and replicating White femininity, which in turn reasserts White masculinity as the dominant ideological structure in service of Whiteness. To be exact, the aim is to specifically focus on how Whiteness travels globally through Muslim bodies and subjects who speak the language of the imperialist and not the vernacular. This language of the imperialist is also the language of heteronormativity, class, and educational privilege. These intersections are not stand-alone categories but instead seep into one another in the service of Whiteness. The study performs an archetypal criticism, a method that examines controlling archetypes emerging from the Western Media. Three archetypes for Muslim women are identified in this study: The Oppressed, The Advocate, and the Humanitarian Leader. Through an intersectional feminist ethic the study concludes by offering further directions for understanding and naming moments when marginalized persons embody privileged identities

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Intellectual property protection in the fashion industry under EU Intellectual property law

The aim of this thesis is to analyse legal and practical issues which arise in case of intellectual property protection in the fashion industry within the European Union and to find possible solutions. Currently, fashion is a multi-million-dollar fast-growing industry that plays a significant role in the European economics. Due to the fact that the fashion industry needs constant changes, creations, innovations and amendments, intellectual property rights and its protection remains a cornerstone of the European fashion industry model. However, the common rules provided by the European Intellectual property law are sometimes not effective enough in order to protect designers from increasing piracy, as current legislation does not take into account the specific features of this industry. That is the reason why it is not clear if current legislation is able to provide adequate regulation and protection to the fast-moving fashion industry

Intellectual property protection in the fashion industry under EU Intellectual property law

The aim of this thesis is to analyse legal and practical issues which arise in case of intellectual property protection in the fashion industry within the European Union and to find possible solutions. Currently, fashion is a multi-million-dollar fast-growing industry that plays a significant role in the European economics. Due to the fact that the fashion industry needs constant changes, creations, innovations and amendments, intellectual property rights and its protection remains a cornerstone of the European fashion industry model. However, the common rules provided by the European Intellectual property law are sometimes not effective enough in order to protect designers from increasing piracy, as current legislation does not take into account the specific features of this industry. That is the reason why it is not clear if current legislation is able to provide adequate regulation and protection to the fast-moving fashion industry

Privacy and a free press: locating the public interest

The term “the public interest” is oft-cited but seldom defined. It is in essence both an umbrella term and a short-hand for a concept (or concepts) that we know we need to understand but have difficulty explaining. However, given both the prevalence and the importance of the concept to the law in specific disputes, confronting its essential nature becomes imperative to resolving those clashes. One such instance comes in the form of the conflict of privacy and a free press. One of the foremost legal problems of our time, the clash of Article 8 and Article 10 rights does not lend itself to simple resolutions given the frequency of what might be described as ‘intractable’ or ‘zero-sum’ cases – where both rights cannot be simultaneously realised to the satisfaction of the parties involved. This thesis therefore seeks to understand where the elusive ‘public interest’ lies in such cases. To do so it firstly examines where the public interest is located in each of the respective rights, and then how those rights are to be balanced. This thesis contends that it is not enough simply to understand the nature of the two rights which are being balanced, but that it is crucial to understand how the act of balancing itself impacts upon the outcome. All of this cannot be divorced from the wider social and political context in which the contest between conflicting rights takes place. This thesis therefore systematically examines each of these pieces of the puzzle to garner an in depth understanding of them individually and how they react with each other. This is done in order to produce a set tools – definitions, understandings, and conclusions – which can be applied to factual situations in order to illuminate the location of the public interest in conflicts between privacy and a free press