Knockoff News 22
A weekly (or thereabouts) collection of news about counterfeits, fakes, knockoffs, replicas, imitations, and the culture of copying in general around the globe:
- FIFA fo fum: Warnings of raids in World Cup counterfeit crackdown
- New technology uses camera phones to ID fakes, grey market goods
- Roadkill: India counts losses, bulldozes counterfeits
- Lifting the veil: NC Secretary of State touts department's work in fighting fakes
- We're number 7: Fighting fakes is the new battle of Algiers
- Think you can spot a knockoff handbag?
- Parallel processing: Distinguishing the grey market from counterfeit trade
- Paddy wagon: The latest from Glasgow, Hong Kong, Uganda and Miami
- Snake in the garden: China still a fake shopper's paradise
- Russia's new economic program: Curtail counterfeit trade
- Liminal state: Reporter finds "perfect knockoff" of 3.1 Phillip Lim sweater
- Nigerian author urges churches, mosques to preach against fakes
