Knockoff News 59
A weekly (or thereabouts) collection of news about counterfeits, fakes, knockoffs, replicas, imitations, and the culture of copying in general around the globe:
- Time out: Customs drops case against tourist who bought fake Rolexes in China
- Will 3D printers spawn a Napster for jewelry?
- Industrial revolution: Inside a Chinese counterfeit watch factory
- Fake perfume killed baby, Saudi consumer claims
- I'm just a bill: U.S. draft law would toughen penalties for counterfeiting offenses
- Reboot: Burberry retrenches after counterfeits diminish brand
- Color my world: Justice, mediation and fabric design
- Peer pressure: Florida teen reports that every girl wants a (fake) Vuitton
- Seize and desist: Confiscation strategy in the EU
- Unsafe haven: EU firms urge South Korea to eliminate piracy
- Sand dollars: Dubai conference touts UAE Custom's efforts to fight fakes
- Like a steel sieve: UAE fakes seized by Macedonian Customs
- Counterfeit perfume floods Qatar
- Alphabet soup: A spelling guide for the creatively challenged
- Coles to Newcastle: City is Britain's fake-goods capital
- Luxe et Vera-tas
- Tibi or not Tibi?
- Straw men (and women) disappear as fakes flourish in Bahamas market
- Moose-hunting season: 9th Circuit vacates denial of preliminary injunction in Abercrombie dispute
- HT: Markenblog
- Double trouble: Andin sues Whitehall Jewellers in copyright, trademark claim
- Fashion recycled: Anna Sui sues Forever 21 for copying unreleased designs
- Shade of gray: YSL sues Costco for selling repackaged goods
- Swiss amiss: Vuitton v. Schlomo Schwissa
- The road to Morocco: Reporter finds bazaar of counterfeits in Manchester
- Faking out the fakers with sci-fi tech
- Kentucky fried: FBI advises Louisville-area consumers on fakes
- Police report:
- Locked room mystery: Thief steals counterfeit handbags being held as evidence
- Who watches the watchmen? Facility manager arrested for theft of fakes
- High fashion: Marijuana, counterfeits seized at apparel store
- So last season: Vuitton fake sellers busted for "simulating objects of antiquity"
- Fake designer gear seized in Walsall
- UK fake sellers convicted, sentenced to community service
- Ohio purse partier gets three years probation
- Does cannabis candy king deserve the Hershey's kiss of death? (Click for pics)
- Do unto others? Forever 21 claims its knockoff technique is proprietary
And in the best pun of the week, Le Petit Musee des Marques features Elle magazine's warning that counterfeiting is anti-fashion:
An appropriate slogan for the global fashion police, no? Perhaps instead of fines and possible jail time for tourists who buy fakes, the French government should just send offending consumers home in T-shirts stamped accordingly.
