Knockoff News 16
A weekly (or thereabouts) collection of news about counterfeits, fakes, knockoffs, replicas, imitations, and the culture of copying in general around the globe:
- Counterfeiters fake whole company
- Shanghai'd consumer wins lawsuit vs. store selling counterfeit jeans
- One in hole: court sends golf counterfeiter to jail
- Go directly to jail: new EU directive sets jail time for counterfeiters
- Pregnant pause: counterfeit seller's bun in the oven delays time in the joint
- Million dollar Baby Phat: record counterfeit raid in South Carolina
- Woman faces criminal charge in fake sneaker, sport clothes raid
- Bad Apples: website compares real & fake iPods
- South African government study of counterfeit trade nears completion
- Geek chic: engineers map counterfeit networks
- Dubai customs fights war on fakes
- Qatar customs also fights war on fakes
- US prompts Philippines to join with China, others vs. fakes
- Pakistan paper describes region's anti-counterfeit crackdown
- The complex trade in luxury fakes
- Should travel agencies bear responsibility for fake-buying tourists?
- Crocodile wars not over
- A concise guide to trademark law in China
- China, Germany sign IP rights pact
And in case you've been wondering about the sources of "superfakes" and lookalike brands (not to mention the real challenges of litigating IP rights in China):
Comments
Susan, if you have the opportunity at some point, I would appreciate your views regarding something I've seen posted more than once: consumers who had bought copies of luxury goods said that their fakes outperformed/outlasted/were better made than the originals.
I know that I myself have bought the occasional watch or sunglasses from street vendors, but to my knowledge they weren't "fake" anything - just generic "watch" or "sunglasses" because I scatter them far and wide, like confetti, in passing. What issues, if any, do you have with street-vended goods that aren't pretending to be anything else?
Posted by: La BellaDonna | May 3, 2006 01:48 PM