Blackletter

What is a notorious market? It's a term that's used to describe websites and physical marketplaces, both where there's large scale intellectual property infringement, particularly in the copyright and trademark space. Every year the United States trade representative, at least for a few years now, issues it's Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy. These are markets that the office has listed that it says harm U.S. businesses by counterfeiting goods either online or physically. Not surprisingly, a number of Chinese markets made the list including Taobao, owned by Alibaba, and DH Gate. But what was surprising was that Amazon made the list, at least Amazon's platforms in Canada, France, Germany, India, and the UK. The U.S. trade representative's report said that Amazon, at least in those country platforms, was not flagging bad vendors or setting sufficient procedures to keep counterfeiters and piraters off of these storefronts.