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Meta's platforms are hotbeds for counterfeit goods

Facebook parent Meta is a hotbed for counterfeit goods, with fake items from Gucci to Chanel widely available on its platforms and social media apps. Research from Ghost Data says Meta’s apps continue to provide lucrative channels for sellers of fake consumer goods all over the world. “Particularly Meta and its subsidiaries have developed a...

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US to crack down on counterfeit goods

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released its first report on combatting counterfeit and pirated goods into Amercia. Its memorandum comes as apparel, accessories, hangbags, watches and jewellery are the top four category items seized in 2018, 56 percent of the year’s annual seizure statistics. The first-ever report outlines a series...

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Does Alibaba do enough to fight counterfeit products?

In view of Alibaba's latest setback in its fight against counterfeit products - the US just returned its online platform Taobao to its blacklist of "notorious markets" last week - FashionUnited has taken a look at what steps the Chinese internet giant has undertaken over the past few years to combat fake products on its websites. As we follow...

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Salvatore Ferragamo continues to fight against counterfeiters with aid of microchips

London - Luxury Italian brand Salvatore Ferragamo is taking its ongoing battle against counterfeiters one step further by inserting microchips in the heels of it footwear and selected handbags. The announcement comes after the company revealed that in 2015 it intercepted and stopped 91,000 online advertisements for counterfeit products and...

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Burberry to pay damages for false counterfeit accusation

Burberry has been ordered to damages to a Korean retailer after it was wrongly accused of importing counterfeit clothing. Burberry's infamous check pattern has long been replicated and sold on the black market, however this time Burberry's Korean unit got it wrong. The British luxury brand has since been ordered to pay KRW10m (approx 9,475 US...