[liberationtech] Counterfeiting (primarily IP products), laundering, human rights (human trafficking/slavery), narcowar Mexico

[Karl Fogel]

The use of the word "counterfeiting" to refer to unauthorized copying of
songs, software, movies, etc is a propaganda technique -- one we
shouldn't assist.

Counterfeiting is a good word for actual fakery, including (say)
currency fakery since that involves a fraudulent claim to possess assets
that one doesn't actually have.  But this so-called "counterfeiting" of
copyright-restricted artifacts is not counterfeiting at all.  It is
merely unauthorized copying.  No fakery or fraud is going on -- unless
you replace the original authors' name with your own, of course, in
which case it's plagiarism.

A more detailed discussion of the issue is here:

  http://questioncopyright.org/faq#counterfeiting
  http://questioncopyright.org/ipec_comments_2010

Certain monopoly-based businesses, along with the governments who grant
their monopolies, want us to use the word "counterfeiting" to describe
unauthorized copying -- and they *love* it when we lump such copying
together with:

  - money laundering
  - human trafficking
  - child porn
  - other bad things :-)

ut this is fuzzy thinking that taints the fairly innocuous act of
unauthorized copying by associating it with unrelated things.

Unauthorized copying is not counterfeiting; it is merely unauthorized.

-K

Douglas Lucas <dal at riseup.net> writes:
>Regarding narcowar in Mexico, you may find helpful my report at
>WhoWhatWhy on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special
>Operations Division seeking White House permission in 2010 to kill
>Sinaloa drug boss El Chapo. I used WikiLeaks documents from the
>Austin-based private intelligence firm Stratfor, and in conjunction with
>the article, WikiLeaks published new Stratfor emails. Stratfor had a DEA
>pilot and sometimes supervisor giving them information about drug
>cartels from a top-secret classified network. I interviewed him and also
>uncovered who Stratfor's clients for Mexico intelligence were.
>
>http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/07/17/are-mexican-drug-lords-the-next-terrorist-targets-a-who-exclusive-series-part-i-of-iii/
>
>Later this month or next month at the latest, I will be publishing
>another long, in-depth Stratfor article on US national security policy
>in Mexico. It is a topic I've been researching for a year now. The
>concern is that big interests are pushing for Mexican drug lords to
>become terrorist targets.
>
>On 12/11/2013 08:48 AM, Lisa Brownlee wrote:
>> liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu <mailto:liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
>> 
>> Re. Counterfeiting (primarily IP products), laundering, human rights
>> (human trafficking/slavery), narcowar Mexico
>> 
>> Dear Libtech friends, Hello!
>> 
>> I am researching the above topics and would appreciate current research
>> in the field.
>> 
>> The International Anticounterfeiting Coalition held a conference on this
>> topic in 2000 in Monterey, Calif. that I attended, but I am getting no
>> response to my inquiries and would also appreciate current researc.
>> 
>> I would appreciate any intelligence, contacts, etc. you may have on this
>> topic.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Lisa M. Brownlee
>> Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Lisa M. Brownlee, Esq.
>> Mexico
>> Skype:  lisa.m.brownlee
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>> Author's website at West Thomson Reuters
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>> About my Law Journal Press treatise
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>> Author of:
>> 
>> Intellectual Property Due Diligence in Corporate Transactions:
>> Investment, Risk Assessment and Management (West Thomson Reuters)
>> 
>> Assets & Finance: Audits and Valuation of Intellectual Property (West
>> Thomson Reuters)
>> 
>> Federal Acquisition Regulations: Intellectual Property and Related
>> Rights (Law Journal Press) - I retired this treatise - another author is
>> now updating it
>> 
>>