Wednesday, 22 August 2007

spot the difference



A museum in Germany, Aktion Plagiarius has devoted itself to naming and shaming all those companies that make a living from ripping off other peoples work. It happens all over the place but as you might expect the Chinese have a particularly soft-spot for it. It often goes unnoticed in the West but inevitably it's starting to take it's toll on businesses that do invest in R&D and Marketing - note:
> 10% of world-wide commerce are fakes and plagiarisms
> Annual world-wide economic loss: EUR 200-300 billion
> Annual world-wide loss of jobs: 200.000
The above examples are a Stihl chainsaw and a make believe BMW courtesy of Gizmodo.

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