Kilt copyright could save tourists from tartan tat

By Michael MacLeod

A CLAN chief is calling for a “tartan trademark” to stop cut price cloth being fobbed off as authentically Scottish.

Lord Jamie Sempill, director of the world’s biggest clan gathering, fears tourists are being conned into buying fake Scots goods made in China or India.

He says a kilt copyright would force the fakes to make it clear that their goods aren’t made in Scotland.

But his plans to change to European law to protect the iconic tartan goods would still be “open to abuse” according to the Scottish Tartans Authority.