Kieselstein- Cord says his workers asked for the surveillance as a way of protecting their profit sharing.

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Even after a quarter-century, Kieselstein- Cord still supervises every design and finished product in his midtown Manhattan studio.

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Even after a quarter century, Kieselstein- Cord still supervises every design and finished product in his midtown Manhattan studio.

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When he found out someone was knocking off his popular sterling Winchester belt buckle for 12 bucks, Kieselstein-Cord took him to court.

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It's like, are we ready to look at Barry Kieselstein-Cord belts again?

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The case went all the way to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York -- and Kieselstein-Cord won, becoming the first designer to win the right to copyright a functional object as art.

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