There are various laws and norms that protect intellectual property. Urban Outfitters seemed to have violated one of those norms last week when it was revealed that some of its jewelry is very similar to that of an independent designer’s on Etsy. It turns out that it’s a very common, completely unoriginal design, much ado [...]

Tags: Etsy, fashion, Heller, intellectual property, signaling, tragedy of the anticommons, Urban Outfitters
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