Knockoff News 32
A weekly (or thereabouts) collection of news about counterfeits, fakes, knockoffs, replicas, imitations, and the culture of copying in general around the globe:
- Southern discomfort: SC fake sellers face stiff penalties under new law
- Nike settles Hackney case, pays for copying council logo (thanks to Christo de Klerk, who first alerted me to this story)
And for those of you who will be following New York Fashion Week with trips to London, Milan, and Paris, the French government has posted reminders regarding its anticounterefeiting laws, which penalize consumer behavior as well as the manufacture and sale of fakes (via Flickr photographer Mwin Mwin):
