The following references are cited on numerous occasions within our Resources section and are recommended reading for those whom wish to learn more about the details of global counterfeiting.
Fakes!
Business Week
7 February 2005.
Knockoff: The Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods
Tim Phillips
Published by Kogan Page Ltd., 2005 (ISBN 07494 4379 0)
Click here to read the review of this book.
Counterfeiting Culture
New Statesman
22 May 2006.
Dangerous Doses - In the tradition of the great investigative classics, Dangerous Doses exposes the dark side of America's pharmaceutical trade and the dangers of counterfeit medicine. “..written with the pace of a potboiler and harrowing in its societal repercussions.”
Click here to read the review of this book.
Fake Nation? A Study into an Everyday Crime
Report for Organised Crime Task Force, Northern Ireland Office
Bryce J. & Rutter, J., 2005
Available online, this report is the published summary of work undertaken by the authors on the consumption of counterfeit goods including digital games and internet piracy. It details the background, empirical and analytical research undertaken during the Intellectual Property Theft and Organised Crime research project (IPTOC) and provides a robust insight into contemporary consumption of counterfeit/pirated goods and illegal downloading in England and Northern Ireland. Click here to download the report.
Murder by Fake Drugs
Until recently the most infamous internationally known example of fake drug dealing was Graham Greene's fictional account of a British fake penicillin peddler who was eliminated in the sewers of postwar Vienna in The Third Man. Unfortunately, malevolent dealings in counterfeit drugs are very much a contemporary reality.
Click here to read the full BMJ editorial.
Counterfeit Medicines
Counterfeit drugs are estimated to represent 10% of the global market in medicines, rising to almost a third in some parts of the developing world. Andrew Jack reports on bids to tackle a growing threat to patients' health.
Click here to read the first 150 words of this BMJ feature and then follow the link for free registration which allows you to read the rest.