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eBay and Fakes

By Intellectual Property Law, Esq.

Time magazine reports that a Paris court has ordered eBay "to pay $63 million in damages to units of the Paris-based luxury goods mammoth LVMH, after agreeing that the site had facilitated the sale of counterfeit versions of its high-end products, particularly Louis Vuitton luggage." Last month "another Paris court ruled that eBay must pay $30,000 to luxury house Hermès after knock-offs of its chic bags had been sold on the site."

Tyler Cowen asks: "how is eBay to detect possible fakes? Buy and inspect the wares? Shut down trade in any fakeable item?"

Full post as published by The Art Law Blog on June 30, 2008 (boomark / email).