ENCORE: Worthy of Protection—Part 1

About this episode

Géraldine Blanche joins Ron Steslow to discuss the intersection of fashion and intellectual property law.

To unlock subscriber-only content, visit: https://politicology.com/plus Géraldine Blanche (Intellectual Property Lawyer and PhD candidate in Intellectual Property Law at the Sciences Po Law School in Paris) joins Ron Steslow to discuss the politics of fashion and intellectual property law (01:25) History of laws protecting creativity (09:20) What IP lawyers do (12:50) What led Géraldine to fashion IP (20:50) Fashion as political (35:50) How politicians send messages through fashion choices (41:41) Fashion as a signifier of political groups Follow Ron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RonSteslow Follow Géraldine on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/designedbylaw/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Ron Steslow

Guest: Géraldine Blanche

Topics covered

• intellectual property law
• fashion politics
• creativity protection
• political messaging
• fashion as a signifier

Keywords

• intellectual property
• fashion law
• politics
• creativity
• fashion choices
• political groups

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Organizations: Sciences Po Law School, Politicology, megaphone.fm, Twitter, Instagram

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