Intellectual Property Management and Protection in ASEAN : Focus on Piracy and Counterfeiting in Physical Markets

This paper provides a review of ASEAN member legal instruments prohibiting piracy and counterfeiting. Despite the solid legal framework, this article also finds piracy and counterfeiting are ubiquitous in the region. Locals and foreign tourists rationalize purchases of infringing items based on comparisons of price and quality between the original and copied products. Vendors are ignored by police due most likely to corruption. An economic discussion helps clarify the situation. The author began this manuscript as a doctoral dissertation, but in the project was abandon in its current form as the author changed research topics to focus on alternative dispute resolution. As such, this article is a rough draft. Nonetheless, it provides some relevant theories, statistics, and cogent argument