Amazon May Have a Counterfeit Problem

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Amazon May Have a Counterfeit Problem
The company is facing multiple lawsuits from brands who say it does not do enough to prevent fakes from being listed on its website.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/amazon-may-have-a-counterfeit-problem/558482/

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Today, though, the process of finding people and businesses selling counterfeit versions of your product is much, much more difficult. The rise of e-commerce sites like Amazon and eBay have essentially helped created millions of such stores online—a seemingly infinite number of doors to knock on to check for fakes. Shut down one storefront for selling counterfeits, and the seller can just create a new account and open a new store. “Amazon has made it extraordinarily difficult to enforce against counterfeiters,” Johnson, who now works on online anti-piracy cases with the law firm Johnson and Pham, told me recently.

The law generally protects e-commerce sites from being responsible for what third-party actors are selling on their sites, and acknowledges that it would be very difficult for companies to monitor every single product that is being sold on their site. That is partly because Congress gave companies that provide online services “safe harbor” immunity from copyright-infringement liability for their users’ actions in 1998 as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Essentially, the law says that internet service providers are highways that goods travel over, said Amy Goldsmith, the cochair of the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Tarter, Krinsky, and Drogin. They are not responsible for what’s in the trucks that go over these roads, as long as they apply a “rigorous” takedown procedure to complaints about counterfeit goods, Goldsmith said.
 
Very interesting piece of information indeed. Thanks for posting it up, Mike.:hat:
 
I have noticed over the last year or so Amazon does not have as many high end watches for sale themselves, it is almost all low end, kind of in that Walmart, JC Penneys zone, this is probably at least one of the reasons.
 
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