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Article from: Daily News Record
Article date: October 22, 2007
Byline: Brenner Thomas, Andrew Harmon
NEW YORK - Whac-a-Mole, that's how anti-counterfeiting experts describe their work. As soon as you thwack one culprit, another pops up somewhere else. "We shut down an operation in China almost every day," says Stuart Lockyear, director of intellectual property at Burberry, "but they just come back." But counterfeiting is no game. The black market for faked goods is gargantuan, fueled by an unslakeable thirst for discount luxury products from Third World countries, where labor ...
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