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  • July 2008

    • How Piracy Can Boost Business

      Economist  |  Jul 19, 08 11:03 AM CDT

      How Piracy Can Boost Business

      (Newser) - Intellectual piracy is bad for business, yes, but also inevitable—and companies fare better when turning it to their advantage, the Economist reports. The large (and illegal) volume of music and video exchanged online, for example, can reveal who’s popular in which countries. And Microsoft, which officially battles piracy, also derives massive benefits from bootlegging of Windows. More »

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      Microsoft  • music industry  • piracy  • intellectual property  • Nike  • knockoff

  • February 2008

    • Scots Fight Fake Kilts

      Independent (UK)  |  Feb 29, 08 9:56 AM CST

      Scots Fight Fake Kilts

      (Newser) - What do plaid skirts have in common with champagne and feta cheese? If Scottish lawmakers have their way, the kilt could be the latest European product to receive a "protected designation of origin" status. Cheap kilt knockoffs could still be sold, but only the real thing—pure wool, hand-sewn in the highlands—could be branded a Scottish kilt, explains the Independent. More »

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      European Union  • Scotland  • knockoff  • wool  • kilt

  • January 2008

    • Hasbro Attacks Fabulous Scrabble Clone

      Fortune Magazine  |  Jan 12, 08 6:00 AM CST

      Hasbro Attacks Fabulous Scrabble Clone

      (Newser) - Hasbro, maker of the classic board game Scrabble, is moving to shut down Scrabulous, a widely popular—and virtually identical—online knockoff. It's currently the ninth most popular application on all of Facebook, with 2.3 million users. Scrabulous’ developers estimate their app brings in about $25,000 a month, about which Hasbro is none too pleased. More »

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      Facebook  • Electronic Arts  • Scrabble  • Hasbro  • Scrabulous  • knockoff

  • October 2007

    • Tequila Industry Gets Salty

      USA Today  |  Oct 17, 07 4:57 PM CDT

      Tequila Industry Gets Salty

      (Newser) - Tequila is more popular than ever, and the Mexican tequila industry is mobilizing to clamp down on knockoffs, USA Today reports. Imitations range from the good—quality tequila made outside of Mexico—to the ugly—cheap and possibly contaminated sugarcane liquors made in basements. "These phony products are a cancer that affect us all," says an official of the drink's regulatory council. More »

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      Mexico  • knockoff  • tequila

  • August 2007

    • Chinese Follies Are All Too Familiar

      Boston Globe  |  Aug 27, 07 9:28 PM CDT

      Chinese Follies Are All Too Familiar

      (Newser) - Before Americans get on their high horse about China’s recent lapses into substandard products—not to mention those fake Harry Potter translations—they should look long and hard at their own history, the Boston Globe suggests. In the 19th century, it was the US that was considered the nation that cut corners. It’s a normal, if not necessarily forgivable, phase Stephen Mihm calls “adolescent capitalism.” More »

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      China  • Harry Potter  • exports  • contamination  • capitalism  • knockoff  • Charles Dickens

    • Bill Targets Designer Knockoffs

      Washington Post  |  Aug 10, 07 8:34 AM CDT

      Bill Targets Designer Knockoffs

      (Newser) - Capitol HIll is considering a bill that would place fashion designs in the same league as a work of art that can be copyrighted, protecting designers from cheap knockoffs for three years. Currently, designers can copyright logos and names, but manufacturers can legally replicate their creations stitch for stitch—and they do. More »

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      fashion  • copyright  • fashion designer  • clothes  • design  • knockoff  • Narciso Rodriguez

    • Harry Potter and the Chinese Knockoffs

      New York Times  |  Aug 1, 07 10:02 AM CDT

      Harry Potter and the Chinese Knockoffs

      (Newser) - The titles are unintentionally hilarious— Harry Potter and the Big Funnel, Harry Potter and the Chinese Porcelain Doll —but China's thriving piracy industry is no laughing matter. The Times looks at the phenomenon of "Harry" knockoffs, a problem so widespread that one estimate puts the percentage of illegal books for sale at 40%. More »

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      China  • book  • Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • piracy  • knockoff

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