CULTURAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
RIGHTS
INITIATIVE®

1. WORKSHOPS

2. TALKS & CONFERENCES

3. PODCASTS

Fashion as a Form of Education:

Getting into Cultural Intellectual Property Law

“Every company will have someone who is trained in Cultural Intellectual Property.”

Monica Moisin

"Monica Bota Moisin is a lawyer for Cultural Intellectual Property (CIP) in fashion as well as founder of the Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative (CIPRI) where she is working on a framework to preserve traditional culture expressions and build bridges between traditional artisans and the fashion industry. 

In this podcast episode she explains the importance of cultural intellectual property, discuss where we are now, how to handle the subject as a designer or brand and what the future will look like."

 ©️Sustainable Fashion Matterz

Podcast Interview on Sustainable Fashion Matterz.

4. FIELD STUDY REPORTS

PROFILES OF TEXTILE ARTISANS IN KUTCH, GUJARAT, INDIA

©Monica Boța-Moisin, CIPRI 2020

5. COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS

CRAFTSMANSHIP FOR A GREEN FUTURE

6. legal protection for traditional designs (TRADITIONAL CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS)

White Paper Report Documenting Traditional Cultural Expressions: Building a Model for Legal Protection Against Misappropriation and Misuse with the Oma Ethnic Group of Laos (Boța-Moisin and Gujadhur, 2021).​

Read the White Paper Report here 

Learn more about the Oma vs Max Mara design plagiarism case and the legal strategy applied  for the development of positive protection of Oma Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCEs) through the creation of a traditional textile design database and the settlement of the dispute with Max Mara S.r.l.