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Fake Ferrari
Searches are up for Fake Ferrari after a replica Ferrari P4 was the centrepiece of a recent anti-counterfeit summit in Brussels.
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Spotlight: Bad Medicine / Link TV
It could be described as the perfect crime. Fake drugs kill vulnerable people: the weak, the old, and the sick. And once consumed, the evidence is destroyed.
In 2003, four children died after undergoing cardiac surgery in a top teaching hospital in Nigeria. The adrenalin drips they had been fed with contained fake drugs.
When Dr. Dora Akunyili, the dynamic regulator of Nigeria's Food and Drug Agency (Nafdac), took the job at Nafdac in 2001, more than half of all drugs in Nigeria were counterfeits or substandard. Some contained just chalk or flour. Others, only a fraction of the active ingredient, triggering drug resistant strains of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV: the world's biggest killers. It could be described as the perfect crime. Fake drugs kill vulnerable people: the weak, the old, and the sick. And once consumed, the... more -
REAL OR FAKE? Fashion Designers Take on Pirates
A bill pending in the Senate would protect the style of a garment, and not just the logo, under copyright.
Under the federal Copyright Act of 1976, the line between design piracy in fashion (co-opting the cut, shape and silhouette of an item) and counterfeiting (faux goods posing as designer merchandise) is razor-thin. Only artwork is protected: brand labels, logos, original prints and embroidery. The patterns -- or blueprints -- for garments and accessories are not. But many in the fashion industry consider the classifications ludicrous and are trying to have the law changed.
"There is no counterfeiting without design piracy," designer Diane Von Furstenberg said in an interview at her Beverly Hills estate. "It's counterfeiting without the label."
As the president of the New York-based Council of Fashion Designers, a nonprofit trade organization, Von Furstenberg is backing a bill pending in the Senate that would amend the Copyright Act. Dubbed the Design Piracy Prohibition Act, it would extend the protections in fashion design beyond artwork to encompass "the appearance as a whole" (the cut and silhouette) of an article for three years.
Though the bill has garnered strong support from Seventh Avenue, many L.A. fashion professionals have voiced doubt as to whether the bill could really make a dent in design piracy -- or if it will increase litigation in an already hyper-litigious industry. A bill pending in the Senate would protect the style of a garment, and not just the logo, under copyright. ... more -
Man Tries To Cash $1 Million Bill
Funnily enough, they didn't have quite enough change. Or think it was real money.
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L'Oreal Sues eBay
eBay is being sued across Europe by the world's biggest cosmetics firm for not trying hard enough to battle counterfeiting
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Counterfeiting
Angela Sun explores the world of fake Louis Vuitton, Versace and DVDs in China--the counterfeiting center of the world.
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