eBay Teams up With Intellectual Property Office
Published March 27th, 2009
eBay U.K. has teamed with the Intellectual Property Office in the UK to combat counterfeiting and piracy on its site.
eBay is after the support of rights owners, anti-piracy units and representatives from the music, film and computer games industry, including FACT, the BPI and ELSPA, to work more closely with the eBay to tackle the counterfeiting.
eBay has launched a system allowing rights owners to report an item as potentially counterfeit and have eBay remove the listing.
Last year, 2.1 million listings worldwide were removed following reports from rights owners and, in the same year, eBay itself proactively removed a further 2 million listings from its site.
“Counterfeits are a global challenge and we all have a part to play in preventing consumers from being able to purchase them,” eBay U.K. special investigator Kevin Morgan said. “We will continue to play our part by working collaboratively with law enforcement agencies and rights owners and we’re delighted that the IPO is so committed to working with us to achieve this goal.”
