Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- The global growth of counterfeit trade -- The supply of counterfeit trade: the problem countries -- Modeling the intellectual property rights environment -- The demand for counterfeit trade: consumer complicity -- The use of anti-piracy...

Walk down any main street in Shanghai, Paris or New York and you will see evidence of the counterfeit goods trade. Everyone has seen or heard of fake Prada bags or Omega watches. But how large is the counterfeit market? It appears that the same numbers have been quoted repeatedly in sources...

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Almost every product imaginable is being copied and manufactured in China, then either sold there or exported elsewhere. While some improvement in the overall intellectual property rights (IPR) environment in China has occurred recently, the issue of piracy remains a daunting one. To understand...