Download or read book Counterfeit Goods and Organised Crime written by Michael Blakeney and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counterfeit Goods and Organised Crime is an in-depth inquiry into the fake goods trade and the involvement of organised crime groups. In this seminal work, Michael Blakeney comprehensively analyses the impact of counterfeiting on the principal industries affected by it. It looks at international, national and regional counterfeit legislation, organised crime groups and counterfeiting customs control.
Download or read book Knockoff written by Tim Phillips and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with victims, investigators, and the people who sell counterfeits, "Knockoff" reveals the link between what we see as innocent fakes and organized crime.
Download or read book The Illicit Trafficking on Counterfeit Goods and Transnational Organized Crime electronic Resource written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fake Goods Real money written by Georgios A. Antonopoulos and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trade in counterfeit goods is growing and is increasingly linked to transnational organised crime. But little is known about the financial mechanisms that lie behind this trade. This is the first account of the financial management of the counterfeiting business. Written by experts in a wide range of fields, it examines the financial and business structures in relation to the illicit trade in counterfeit products. Based on interviews with active criminal entrepreneurs in the UK and abroad and other data, the authors explore ‘organised crime’ and mutating criminal markets, digital technologies and their criminological and sociological implications, and cultural values and practices. This book will make a significant contribution to our understanding of these timely issues.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Counterfeiting and Illicit Trade written by Peggy E. Chaudhry and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique Handbook provides multiple perspectives on the growth of illicit trade, primarily exploring counterfeits and internet piracy. It includes expert opinion on a wide range of topics including the evaluation of key global enforcement issues, government and private-sector agency initiatives to stifle illicit trade, and the evolution of piracy on the internet. The authors also assess the efficacy of anti-counterfeiting strategies such as targeted consumer campaigns, working with intermediaries in the supply chain, authentication technology, and online brand protection.
Download or read book The Consumption of Counterfeit Fashion written by Joanna Large and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the consumption of counterfeit fashion goods. Despite the importance of the consumer in counterfeiting policy, there has been a lack of attention within criminology about the demand for counterfeit goods. A tendency to explain counterfeit consumption through deviance or ‘othering’ reinforces stereotypical assumptions about consumers and overplays the importance of superficial factors in consumption. This book develops an understanding of why counterfeit markets exist through exploring consumer behavior in consuming counterfeit fashion, and examining this in relation to attitudes on fashion, crime, harm and victimization. The book argues that there is a need to consider demand for illicit goods within a broader understanding of the nature of fashion and the fashion industry. This book will appeal to those with an interest in illicit markets, consumer behavior, fashion, criminology, and the harms associated with fashion and consumer industries more generally.
Download or read book Trademark Counterfeiting Product Piracy and the Billion Dollar Threat to the U S Economy written by Paul Paradise and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called the business crime wave of the 21st century, trademark counterfeiting and product piracy are worldwide in scope and cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars every year. High technology and the globalization of business have made it possible to counterfeit and pirate a seemingly limitless number of products, from t-shirts, designer jeans, films and books to auto and airplane parts, and prescription drugs. The 1995-1996 trade dispute between the U.S. and China shows how serious the problem has become for American business and for U.S. diplomatic relations. Paradise explores the history of counterfeiting and piracy, shows how they are done, and the strategies that U.S. businesses are using to combat them. With interviews, commentary, and anecdotes by corporate attorneys, business leaders, and private investigators, this well-written book is essential for anyone interested in the damage that violations of intellectual property law are inflicting on world trade and what is being done to stop it. Called the business crime wave of the 21st century, trademark counterfeiting and product piracy are worldwide in scope and cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars every year. High technology and the globalization of business have made it possible to counterfeit and pirate a seemingly limitless number of products, from t-shirts, designer jeans, films and books to auto and airplane parts, and prescription drugs. The 1995-1996 trade dispute between the U.S. and China shows how serious the problem has become for American business and for U.S. diplomatic relations. Paradise explores the history of counterfeiting and piracy, shows how they are done, and the strategies that U.S. businesses are using to combat them. With interviews, commentary, and anecdotes by corporate attorneys, business leaders, and private investigators, this well-written book is essential for anyone interested in the damage that violations of intellectual property law are inflicting on world trade and what is being done to stop it. Paradise lays out the problem in Chapter 1 with a clear explanation of the differences between trademarks, copyrights, and patents, and the laws covering each. In Chapter 2 he looks at the role played by organized crime, gray market goods, the lack of intellectual property laws, and ultimately the threat to U.S. business. He discusses the recent investigations and disputes with China, and its aftermath throughout Southeast Asia. Chapter 4 focuses on the knockoff, chapter 5 on street peddlers and flea markets (and how merchants are retaliating), and chapter 6 on the tracking of counterfeiters. The entertainment industries and the pharmaceutical industries are then closely examined. He follows with equally comprehensive (and chilling) studies of automobile and aircraft parts counterfeiting and piracy in cyberspace. Paradise ends with a look at what is being done to counteract the inroads that piracy and counterfeiting have made into the global economy, and offers a provocative call for more and better efforts in the future.
Download or read book Counterfeit Goods written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fake Goods Real Money written by Georgios A. Antonopoulos and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books examines the financial and business structures of the counterfeiting business and considers how the internet and e-commerce present financial opportunities for counterfeiters. It explores 'organised crime' and criminal markets, digital technologies and cultural values and practices.
Download or read book The Funding of Organized Crime and Terrorism Through the Sale of Counterfeit Goods written by Paul Pantani and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The counterfeit goods market is a $600 billion a year industry. If it were a legitimate industry it would be the largest in the world. Low risk of arrest and prosecution and large profit potential has made this an appealing enterprise for organized crime and terrorist groups to fund their organizations. This study conducted research in the form of a review of existing literature and case studies, interviews with representatives of the victimized companies and criminal prosecutors, a review of criminal case prosecutions and the sentences imposed for those convicted of intellectual property theft crimes. The findings confirm a direct connection between the counterfeit goods market and the funding of organized crime. The connection to the funding of terrorist groups was not proven conclusively.
Download or read book The Globalization of Crime written by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and published by UN. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The globalization of crime: a transnational organized crime threat assessment, UNODC analyses a range of key transnational crime threats, including human trafficking, migrant smuggling, the illicit heroin and cocaine trades, cybercrime, maritime piracy and trafficking in environmental resources, firearms and counterfeit goods. The report also examines a number of cases where transnational organized crime and instability amplify each other to create vicious circles in which countries or even subregions may become locked. Thus, the report offers a striking view of the global dimensions of organized crime today.
Download or read book OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies Illicit Trade Converging Criminal Networks written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report assesses the magnitude, flows and drivers of illicit trade and the illegal economy including: narcotics, human trafficking, wildlife, sports betting, counterfeit medicines, alcohol and tobacco.
Download or read book Illicit Business written by Anthea McCarthy-Jones and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illicit business is big business. It covers a diverse range of activities from money laundering, drug trafficking and human trafficking through to the manufacture of counterfeit goods and the multiple activities in informal and shadow economies. This book introduces the world of illegal business. The authors contextualise the evolution in practices of illegal business around the world, highlighting the importance of organised crime, shadow economies, and informal sectors. Incorporating scholarly insights with real world examples, the book provides a much-needed business and economics analysis of a subject that is otherwise dominated by criminologists. With a range of case studies, this book provides a global approach that will be valuable reading for students seeking to understand the business of crime.
Download or read book Brand Protection and the Global Risk of Product Counterfeits written by Wilson, Jeremy M. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product counterfeits and other brand infringements represent a growing and substantial risk to firms, consumers, and society. While policing such illicit activity is important, there is much that firms can do to protect themselves and their customers. Grounded in field research and practice, this book presents a total business solution approach to brand protection that enables firms to prevent infringement from occurring and respond efficiently when it does.
Download or read book Counterfeit Products Genuine Harm written by Bruce Levinson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses intellectual property theft in the context of President Obama's National Security Council's Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime and Executive Order 13581. The paper's focus is on understanding how the counterfeiting of industrial and consumer goods harms public health while funding organized crime. The paper concludes with policy recommendations.
Download or read book Black Market Billions written by Hitha Prabhakar and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Market Billions blows the lid off the world's fastest-growing illicit industry: organized retail crime. Hitha Prabhakar reveals how criminals with ties to terrorist groups around the world are committing huge product thefts, and using the profits to fund terrorist acts. Prabhakar connects the dots and follows the money ... from consumers "dying for a deal" to terrorist cells eager to do the killing.
Download or read book Counterfeit Goods from China Threaten and Expose the Global Market to Economic Terrorism written by Katherine Ryce Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trafficking counterfeit goods is not a victimless crime. When counterfeit goods are allowed to cross U.S. borders, consumers' health and safety are jeopardized, business reputations and manufacturing jobs are endangered, and intellectual property rights are not protected or enforced. Counterfeiters generally operate from countries with few regulations and less effective enforcement measure, countries known as private safe havens where IP enforcement is weak. Intellectual Property inspires innovation and research investment and boosts economic and employment growth, which in turn leads to greater diversity of goods and services. (ipBlackMarket, 2011) When China does not enforce intellectual property rights, other trading countries become skeptical of China's underlying motives and property right owners become fearful of conducting business. Counterfeit trafficking has also been linked to support of organized criminal networks, enabling them to steal US dollars and use the proceeds from counterfeit goods to finance unlawful activities. Running and maintaining organized crime requires substantial financing. Cutting off the source of funds of organized criminals will leave them penniless and paralyzed. (Krieger & Meierrieks, June 2011) The time has come for organized criminal networks to stop turning U.S. dollars into their profits. The counterfeit industry is a global problem that affects everyone by disrupting the financial stability of the market. Economic terrorism could ensue if China fails to protect intellectual property and dangerous product suppliers continue to prosper and take over the global market.
