60 Second Advocate - Counterfeiting and Piracy

The Scope of the Problem. Intellectual Property (IP) theft costs U.S. companies between $200-$250 billion a year and roughly 750,000 jobs to date. Counterfeit goods make up an estimated 5%-7% of world trade, resulting in lost economic opportunities domestically and abroad.

The problem of counterfeiting and piracy goes beyond the manufacture, distribution, and sale of unauthorized goods. Nearly all industries are being affected, from apparel and footwear, high-tech industrial goods, medicines, autos and auto parts, food and beverages, and cosmetics to copyrighted works, including entertainment and business software, movies, music, and books.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• counterfeit
• piracy
• politics
• business

[GeorgeKearse]

There is a lot more that the likes of Google can be doing to support the whistleblowing process and the fight against sellers of counterfeit goods.

Public awareness: the reporting hotline for the country could be hosted directly and obvious in the Google main web search page, the Google main shopping search page, and again in the Google search results pages. The same for the warning messages “BEWARE FAKES” “REPORT FAKES” and the "Watch this clip before you buy!" video clip embedded alongside.

[ouint]

made in china

china starting the whole counterfeit thing

[apocalypse348]

there is no financial crisis! this is government created..the rich eat the poor as they lead us to accept everything as 'global' including a one world government,,next there will be no currency,,this is all planned,,stand up america because the rich are eating the poor,,as we head rapidly toward the new world oder!

[cleanarab]

folks just tryin to survive out here in this tough world.da cops need to do some real work like cleanin up da ghettos or stoppping the GOVERNMENT from shipping the drugs in to the ghettos.fake merchandise should be the last thing on their minds.who do they work for the corporations who make million and millions of dollars or the everyday citizen???why is this ladies nostrils flarin like a wild animal.

[jamesrobert2]

take one! that's a rap!

[qnzfyn3ztjump0ff]

lmao. horrendous acting.

[NiP]

*they aren't paying

[NiP]

He doesn't sound convincing though. They could have took another second for him to seem like he actually reacted, so it didn't sound so rehearsed since they are paying for air time.

[hasanatkazmi]

which website???

[JollyMunkie]

Yeah, I bet that handbag is a fake, but she still kept it after the cameras stopped rolling?

"Oh, no. I would never so such a thing. No one in the entertainment industry has a fake Louis Vitton handbag!"