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Counterfeiting and piracy harm society in many ways that are not easily understood. Companies producing genuine products are badly hit when a large market share is going to the counterfeit or pirated product instead. The counterfeits can always undersell the genuine product as no money has been spent on research and development. This has a negative impact on the economy of the country.
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This page is a special summary of cases that reveal where counterfeiting and piracy have caused damage to the economy. Each reference has been extracted directly from a story archived in the BASCAP Case Study Database. For further research, the full article can be found by clicking on the associated endnote.
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Report records extent of counterfeit vehicle parts industry - 1 September 2008
- Report Buyer, the online business intelligence resource, has added a new report that concludes the global market for counterfeit vehicle parts is now worth $16bn; 795
30% of car parts are fake - UAE, 1 August 2008
- Counterfeit electronic components are entering the UK market in huge numbers, costing the economy an estimated £1bn a year; 787
Counterfeit electronics cost UK £1 Billion a year - UK, 1 August 2008
- Legitimate car manufacturers say they lose more than Dh735 million (US$200m) a year to counterfeiters in the Middle East; 788
Piracy costs Indian entertainment industry $4 billion each year - India, 7 March 2008
- ...piracy cost the Indian entertainment industry over $4 billion annually in addition to over 800,000 jobs; 767
Georgia acts on cigarette tax stamp counterfeiting - 1 March 2008
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The move follows concerns that Georgia is losing over $20 million annually from cigarette smuggling and tax evasion, and that fake cigarettes fund terrorism; 761
Perilous Pesticides - 1 February 2008
- In February last year, a counterfeit herbicide used in Italy was found to contain quantities of a potentially dangerous insecticide. In 2004, hundreds of hectares of wheat were wiped out in France, Italy and Spain because of a fake herbicide; 752
UAE counts the cost of fakes - UAE, 1 February 2008
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Brand owners in the UAE last month called for higher penalties against counterfeiters after a KPMG study revealed that the value of fake products in the UAE reached $670 million to $696 million in 2006; 750
TV Piracy on the rise in the UAE - UAE, 26 January 2008
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TV piracy in the UAE costs Showtime media company almost $11 billion a year, the company’s COO has reported; 754
Film piracy losses escalate - South Korea, 1 January 2008
- The scale of losses to piracy in the Korean film industry is escalating sharply according to a new report by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), which says industry losses to piracy stood at $1 billion last year; 722
Firms losing millions to counterfeit ink cartridge syndicate - Africa, 1 November 2007
- Makers of printer cartridges claim to be losing millions of shillings to a vibrant counterfeiting industry that refills and repackages them for resale in the local market as new products; 671
Fake Auto parts market grows – UK, 23 October 2007
- ...the sale of counterfeit and illegal auto-parts is now estimated to cost the global automotive and commercial vehicle markets up to US$12 billion annually; 733
CEBU attempts to curb software piracy in the Philippines - Philippines, 11 October 2007
- Software piracy has cost the Philippines an estimated $119 million since 2004 alone and recent figures show that over 70% of all computers use counterfeit software; 730
The true cost of piracy - USA, 10 October 2007
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Up to $58 billion is thought to be lost each year through music, film & software piracy and as many as 373,000 US jobs; 729
Piracy hits Ghana’s recording industries - Ghana, 19 September 2007
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Music piracy in Ghana costs the recording industries millions of dollars each year in lost revenues; 726
Counterfeiters crippling Nigerian publishing industry - Nigeria, 7 September 2007
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A Nigerian publishing firm has reported losses of over $12 million in a single year as a direct result of piracy within the industry; 718
Kalashnikov gunning for counterfeiters/copiers - Russia, 1 September 2007
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Officials at the Kalashnikov factory estimate their losses are around $360 million every year because of Kalashnikov-type rifles produced in Bulgaria, China, Poland and the United States; 677
Nintendo suffers huge losses from piracy - 20 August 2007
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It is reported that Nintendo and its associated companies lost $762 million in sales in 2006 as a result of piracy; 713
Global software piracy at 35% - 29 July 2007
- Counterfeit software may cost the industry up to $40 billion annually with recent studies estimating global piracy rates at 35%; 707
Piracy worth over $1 billion in Mexico - Mexico, 3 July 2007
- A new report from the International Alliance for Intellectual Property has revealed Mexico has the fourth largest counterfeit goods market, behind only Russia, China and Italy; 704
Piracy costs government $165m - Pakistan, 1 June 2007
- According to a conservative estimate the government of Pakistan loses Rs 10 billion ($165 million) annually in terms of direct and indirect revenue because of counterfeiting and trademark infringement; 663
Growing menace of spurious drugs: a case study - India, 13 May 2007
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Out of the approximately Rs19,000 crores worth of business annually in the pharmaceutical sector in India, approximately Rs4,000 crores is on account of spurious drugs alone ; 658
Korea claims Chinese copies of its goods are severely damaging exports - Korea, 1 February 2007
- Chinese producers are seriously undermining Korean exports says the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), which claims that Chinese fake goods cost the country 5% of its total exports worth around $14.2 billion
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Study finds Ford loses $1 billion to counterfeits annually - US, 22 January 2007.
- A study by the US Chamber of Commerce has found that counterfeit parts are costing the Ford Motor Co. $1 billion annually; 636.
Piracy now worth 20% GDP - Mexico, 1 December 2006.
- Piracy in the apparel industry alone is responsible for the loss of 400,000 jobs and $340 million; 624.
Russian piracy exceeds $93 million from January to October - Russia 16 November 2006.
- Annually auto companies are losing $12 billion to counterfeit parts. A massive $3 billion of this is lost in North America alone; 623.
Auto companies losing billions due to counterfeiting - USA, 10 October 2006.
- Annually auto companies are losing $12 billion to counterfeit parts. A massive $3 billion of this is lost in North America alone; 607.
Recording Industry Key Issues: Czech Republic - Czech Republic, 1 August 2006.
- The last six years have seen a sharp drop in legitimate sales of recorded music in the Czech Republic (the market was worth around 60 million Euro in 2000 and fell to below 20 million Euro in 2005!);
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82% of software in Pakistan was pirated last year – Pakistan, 1 May 2006
- According to the BSA, 82% of software in Pakistan was pirated last year, costing the economy around $26 million; 29.
Market flooded with 50 million counterfeit music or film disks – Spain,
1 December 2005
- Spain, which has one of the worst piracy problems in Europe, suffers from a piracy rate of 24% - equivalent in value to US$77 million; 79.
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