Knockoff News 27
A weekly (or thereabouts) collection of news about counterfeits, fakes, knockoffs, replicas, imitations, and the culture of copying in general around the globe:
- Mixed up confusion: Abercrombie & Fitch halts bulk sales in effort to stop fake trade
- Diesel not flattered by imitation
- The Devil Wears Prado: Ohio paper advises status-seekers to buy low-price knockoffs
- State of the union: Governing.com reviews current anti-counterfeit enforcement
- Sheriffs of Nottinghamshire: UK officials advertise link between fakes & organized crime
- New EU design law makes protecting fashion easier
- Copycat suitcase maker loses EU suit case
- Attorney calls for improvements to Australia's anti-counterfeiting law
- Not according to Berlitz: Student claims she went to knockoff bazaar to practice Mandarin
- Polish invasion: Clothing, accessories account for most fakes seized at Poland's borders
- Duds 'n' suds: Kenya gov't promotes new anti-counterfeiting measures, deodorant soap
- FBI targets Hezbollah trade scams
- Who's your Daddy? eBay seller jailed for selling fake shoes
- Penny dreadful: Bots boost feedback rating of fake sellers by 1 cent sham sales
- Shifty nickel: Fake online Tiffany jewelry poses metallic health hazard
- Venice beached: LAPD cracks down on counterfeits at legendary California boardwalk
- Roundup: Georgia, South Carolina, New York, Manchester
- Everything you wanted to know about the Slovak Commercial Inspectorate (but were afraid to ask)
And congratulations to Diane von Furstenberg on her election as CFDA president! (How nice to have a nonfictional woman president at some level!)
