eBay defends anti-counterfeiting actions
17 June 2008
James Nurton, Paris
The managing director of eBay in France has hit back at accusations that the company is not doing enough to tackle the sale of counterfeit goods, saying “eBay has become a victim of counterfeiters”
Speaking at the sixth annual International IP Conference organized in Paris, Alex von Schirmeister said the US-headquartered company has tried to create programmes to fight counterfeiting.
But, he said, eBay faces a big challenge, given that it has 276 million users with 113 million objects for sale at any one time. He added: “Now you have organized crime using eBay to sell products.”
Von Schirmeister also claimed that eBay has 2,000 out of its 14,000 staff devoted to “fighting counterfeiting and other illicit activities”.
“We...
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