Questions tagged [counterfeiting]
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Is buying counterfeit goods illegal?
There are fake Rolexs being sold on the internet for around £250. This is illegal, and those engaged in selling such items have been charged with unauthorised use of a trademark. It appears that the crime here is
the right is not in the…
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Is it legal to sell suspected or proven counterfeit US currency?
If someone ends up with suspected counterfeit US currency, what can they do with it? Obviously tendering it for goods or services would be illegal.
Handing it in for analysis and eventual destruction by the issuing authority would be the "right"…
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Can a company choose to destroy a potentially counterfeit collectible that is offered to them?
I've recently read a thread on Reddit from the world of collectible card games that I found very interesting. Here's my summary of what the poster on Reddit describes has happened to them:
I have offered expensive collectible cards to a re-selling…
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Who can claim ownership of pirated goods?
I recently got into a discussion about copyright and ownership. The person was arguing that when you illegally copy an item, then the copy is owned by the original author. As such he argues that they can claim it to be theft in addition to copyright…
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Held liable for negligently allowing counterfeit?
Suppose Alice runs a bar in the US, so patrons must be 21 or older. Bob comes to the bar with a fake ID, and Alice allows him to order drinks. Normally if Bob were caught, it seems that there would be no real consequences for Alice. But what if…
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Can You Be Prosecuted Under US Law for Counterfeiting Foreign Currency?
Let's imagine that I'm a person living in the US who wants to counterfeit foreign currency and then convert it into US dollars. Let's say it's the currency of a country that the US doesn't really have formal relations with (no extradition treaty,…
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"Counterfeiting" Ethereum tokens: is it considered illegal?
ERC20 tokens are cryptocurrencies built upon the Ethereum blockchain. These tokens can be used for buying, selling,smart contracts, etc. See more information here: https://cointelegraph.com/explained/erc-20-tokens-explained
Back in 2018, an unknown…
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What is the difference between "tamper," "alter," and "mutilate"
For example the words given here
Whoever falsely makes, forges, counterfeits, mutilates, or alters any passport or instrument
purporting to be a passport, with intent that the same may be used;
or here
knowingly removes, obliterates, tampers…
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How much penalty can consumers get in USA or other country in Europe?
According to Article 55 in "consumer protection law including 2013 amendments(Chinese law)" :
Where proprietors fraudulently provide goods or services, they shall follow consumers' requests to increase the compensation for their losses,
with the…
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Michael Stevens on Vsauce, Laws and Causes, used a fake penny from 2027 as a demonstrative. Is it actually illegal to do that?
https://youtu.be/_WHRWLnVm_M?si=4pNg4KZgTYwbsjlE
He didn't spend the penny, he just presented it before the camera. He asked if it is in fact counterfeit money if the original it is copying does not exist yet.
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Possible liability (and time limits on) for selling counterfeit media
Seller Sally is selling some ostensibly old and rare CDs containing music by a famous band. She claims that the record label supplied them to her directly for promotion when she was working for a radio station decades ago.
These particular CDs are…
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