Trafficking of counterfeit goods criminology
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Katedra Kryminologii i Polityki Kryminalnej
Wydział Prawa i Administracji
Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
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Katedra Prawa Rzymskiego i Porównawczego
Wydział Prawa i Administracji
Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
Publication date: 2014-03-31
JoMS 2014;20(1):263-285
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ABSTRACT
Counterfeiting of trademarked products is an increasing problem in
national and international trade. The OECD report of 2008 estimates the
volume of international trade in counterfeit and pirated products at USD
200 billion per year. These studies did not include the value of products
distributed domestically and via the Internet. Given these distribution
channels of counterfeit and pirated goods value of the market may double.
This significant economic phenomenon occurs in both less developed and
well developed countries. The International Anti Counterfeiting Coalition
(IACC) estimates that 5-7 percent of world’s trade is in illegitimate goods.
In the medium term this problem is estimated to increase up to several
thousand percent. From the consumer’s perspective, counterfeiting can be
either deceptive or non-deceptive. The demand side of counterfeiting is
the actual forces behind this counterfeiting trade. Deceptive counterfeiting
involves purchases where consumers are not aware that the product they
are buying is a counterfeit. This aggravating market pathology affects the
price level influences the reputation of manufacturers, can be a real threat
to the life and health of consumers and is changing international division
of labor. The most frequently examined counterfeit goods are those whose
ratio of functional utility to price is low while the ratio of intangible and
situational utility to price is high (luxury goods).