A weekly (or thereabouts) collection of news about counterfeits, fakes, knockoffs, replicas, imitations, and the culture copying in general around the globe:

• China combats Olympic fakes with serial numbers, merchant control
• Marine manufacturers praise Bush for heeding SOS
• Virginia police issue anti-piracy APB
• Police claim consumers confuse flea-market fakes with real Vuitton
• US anti-piracy watchdogs fire salvo against Saudis
• Trinidad & Tobago ponders, "Is Culture a Business?"

And perhaps I'm just hungry, but it seems as though there are quite a few fake foods out there this week:

• Blogger busts Chinese hot dog pirates
• Iran's just mad about saffron

Then again, maybe quite a few people have the munchies:

• Reefer madness: knockoff marijuana candy ring busted by DEA