PLM and 3D garment tools
Fashion PLM software and who keeps your design data
Choosing fashion PLM software is usually about workflow. For a brand thinking about licensing its archive, the terms on ownership, pooled data and leaving matter more.
Ask about my design archive 5 of the 10 textile and fashion platforms we read leave the designs with the customer. Tell us where your archive lives and we will write back about it.
Who owns the designs
Onbrand says customer content and the intellectual property in it is the exclusive property of the customer, and CLO that, as between the parties, the customer retains all rights and ownership of its content. 5 of the 10 vendors on our board say nothing on ownership in the documents we read.
Source: Textile PLM software data terms
What the vendor keeps
Onbrand says it is the sole owner of the derived data it creates and may use it for any lawful business purpose. CLO-SET takes a licence to aggregate and analyse a customer's raw data and to make commercial use of the derived data, and Centric's privacy policy says it may use and disclose aggregate information.
Source: Textile PLM software data terms
Leaving
World Fashion Exchange deletes customer data permanently when the service ends, CLO keeps deleted content for 30 days in which retrieval can be requested, and Lectra says Kubix Link offers features for data recovery and portability.
Source: Textile PLM software data terms
Who owns each design in law is at fabric design copyright.