Facebook Live targeted in crackdown on trading in counterfeit goods
By PETCHANET PRATRUANGKRAI 
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- THE INTELLECTUAL Property Department has stepped up suppression of the trading of counterfeit goods online, in particular via Facebook Live, after discovering widespread illegal activity.

 

Thosapone Dansubutra, director-general to Intellectual Property Department, said to crack down on the practice via Facebook Live, the department had asked Facebook’s head office in Singapore to help provide information on its users who had breached intellectual property-right laws. 

Thosapone said the department would ask for copyright owners to report violations to the government so fake-goods traders using online websites or Facebook Live can be punished for breaching intellectual property right laws including |the Copyright and Trademark acts. 

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/business/corporate/30301475

 

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fake goods are every where in thailand. dont have to go chasing the sellers online, just walk down any main street or go into any mall in any main town in thailand.

Does this include fake visa's issued from the embassy in Cameroon?

I like the items which look like the real deal until you look at the name and the spelling well be 1 letter off ( i for l ) etc. I dont know if these '' near copies '' are made here or imported but they get a lot of suckers money.  When i pointed out one time that advertised silk shirts were not silk, it was explained as being Thai silk. I knew for a fact the shirts had come from Hong Kong, so everything was legal, I guess. The enforcement of copyright, merchandise, etc infringement has been largely ignored in Thailand

Facebook is a grass. It gives every individuals details to anybody that asks, even without official court order... beware...

 

 

 

Facebook legal department has a special desk devoted to "requests from Thailand to do things they want"

 

or is it a special bin.....