Knockoff News 63
A weekly (or thereabouts) collection of news about counterfeits, fakes, knockoffs, replicas, imitations, and the culture of copying in general around the globe:
- Bootylicious: Beyonce sues bootleggers for trademark infringement
- Cup runneth over: BraBaby inventors fight multiple copyists
- Coopers' union: New Zealand designers settle surname trademark suit
- Where there's smokes: Supreme Court denies cert in counterfeit injunction case
- Dolce et Decorum est: Fake fashion blights Rome's urban beautification campaign
- Italy launches anti-counterfeit blitz
- Bauble burst: Chanel sues Bibi's Bling Bling
- Just don't do it: Nike apologizes for plagiarizing logo design
- "I'm Not a Smug Twat"
- Suburban ennui: It's a knockoff world
- Dessert of the real: Fake becomes real in 7-Eleven/Kwik-e-Mart stunt
- United nations: Bipartisan bill proposes standardized global IPR enforcement
- Nose in the tent: Arab League, Hemaya Universal launch new anti-fake initiative
- Beach bums: Piracy in Gran Canaria
- Grade deflation: Fake trade a sign of a failed state
- Route of all evil: NY counterfeit ring used Texas ports
- Knockoff world war: Stop fakes before they kill
- Street fight: Government not the solution to Chinese piracy
- Marathon: Olympic souvenirs not rampant in China . . . yet
- But does it require AT&T? Chinese "tPhone" knocks off iPhone
- Pictures imperfect: Mainland China, the land of counterfeits
- Shocked, shocked: The craft of counterfeiting in Morocco (HT: pMdM)
- Crossing the line: Dangerous fakes may lead to legal change in Canada
- O no: The scoop on counterfeit Oakley glasses
- Dead meat: Counterfeit Hamas rat eats the cheese
- Stiff upper lip: Vegas doctor accused of injecting fake Botox (HT: Raincoaster)
- Police report
And for progressive parents concerned about the effects of your young daughters' exposure to Barbie but still in thrall to pink, your worries are over! For what harm could come from being a Benign Girl? Thanks to Esther17 for posting on Flickr!
