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

• New Mexico Bill Proposes Native American Certification Mark
• Class Ring:  Texas Teen Pleads Guilty to Running Counterfeit Biz
• Farmers Fight Knockoffs, State in Alaska Logo War
• North Face wins Counterfeit Case
• BBC Tackles Football Fakes
• UK Raid Yields Designer, Football Fakes
• Operation "Chinese Stuff":  Catania Breaks Up Counterfeit Ring
• Chinese Release Details of Counterfeit Crackdowns
• Chinese Customers Buy A, B, C-level Fakes
• Delaware Traffic Stop Nets Record Seizure of Fakes
• Art Forger Now Sells Genuine Fakes

And a shout-out to all of those knockoff artists busy copying last night's Oscar dresses:

• Red Carpet Replicas Put Copyists in the Black