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ARTICLE · 28 MAY 2019

Adidas Gets A Boost In Yeezy Copyright Battle

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Despite the popularity of the Yeezy's among sneaker wearers, the Copyright Office was unimpressed.

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Adidas's two-year effort to secure copyright registration over design elements of its massively popular Yeezy Boost 350 sneakers finally succeeded.  Last week, the Review Board of the Copyright Office granted a second request for reconsideration of the Registration Program's refusal to register 2-D artwork and sculpture claims in Kanye West's Yeezy Boost 350 Versions 1 and 2.  Adidas had filed the applications back in 2017, seeking registration not for the sneakers themselves, but for the "irregular black lines of various lengths and shapes on a gray fabric with a black semi-circle in the arch and an orange dotted stripe on an off-white heel loop" that make up the Version 1, and the "several grey lines in a wave pattern with a thick orange stripe on the outsole that fades toward the heel" on the Version 2.

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