On May 13, 2008, Harper’s Bazaar partnered with Kodak and Microsoft to host our fourth annual anticounterfeiting summit for luxury executives, intellectual property lawyers, and government officials in New York City’s Hearst Tower. The goal of the summit was to bring together decision makers to discuss the devastating effects of counterfeiting and possible solutions to a growing international problem. The event inspired international media attention from press such as Fox News and The New York Times.
Dr. Moisés Naím, Editor in Chief of Foreign Policy magazine and author of Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy, served as the keynote speaker. Dr. Naím discussed the inner workings of the counterfeit industry and the importance of international action to combat its threat to the global economy and society.
Dr. Frederick Mostert, Chairman of the Authentics Foundation and Walpole Intellectual Property and Brand Protection Group and past President of the International Trademark Association, moderated a discussion by a panel of experts, including industry representatives and government officials. Topics included the methods for minimizing the amount of counterfeit products sold each year and diminishing the demand for these products among consumers.
Deputy Mayor of New York Ed Skyler unveiled New York City’s brand-new anticounterfeiting campaign, which includes posters that will be featured in high-traffic Manhattan areas courtesy of the city of New York. Skyler emphasized the local effects of counterfeiting on the economy and job market, bringing the issue close to home for consumers.
We offer huge thanks to our sponsors, Kodak and Microsoft, for their generous support of the 2008 Harper’s Bazaar Anticounterfeiting Summit.
The 2008 Harper’s Bazaar Anticounterfeiting Summit panel. (left to right) Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chief Business Development Officer and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company; Thomas C. Rubin, Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property Strategy, Microsoft; Valerie Salembier, Senior Vice President/Publisher, Harper’s Bazaar; Dr. Moisés Naím, Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy; Frederick Mostert, Chairman, Authentics Foundation; Patrick Ford, Senior Director Global Security, Americas Region, Pfizer, Inc.; Rachel Bae, Director for Intellectual Property and Innovation, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Guests discuss the negative effects of counterfeiting at the 2008 Harper’s Bazaar Anticounterfeiting Summit. (left to right) Kristina O’Neill, Fashion News/Features Director, Harper’s Bazaar; Valerie Salembier, Senior Vice President/Publisher, Harper’s Bazaar; Alain Coblence, Attorney, Coblence & Associates; Glenda Bailey, Editor in Chief, Harper’s Bazaar
Valerie Salembier, Senior Vice President/Publisher, Harper’s Bazaar at the exhibition of submissions to the Fakes Are Never in Fashion sweepstakes, in which readers relinquished their counterfeits for the chance to win an authentic luxury item.
Dr. Moisés Naím, Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy and author of Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy, delivers his keynote address.
MODERATOR
Dr. Frederick Mostert
Chairman, Authentics Foundation
Past President, International Trademark Association
Chairman, Walpole Intellectual Property and Brand Protection Group
PANELISTS
Rachel Bae
Director for Intellectual Property and Innovation, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Patrick Ford
Senior Director Global Security, Americas Region, Pfizer, Inc.
Jeffrey Hayzlett
Chief Business Development Officer and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company
Thomas C. Rubin
Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property Strategy, Microsoft
QUICK QUOTES
“On March 11, 2004, Madrid was changed forever. One hundred ninety-one innocent men, women, and far too many children lost their lives in train bombings that were another example of the inhumanity of terrorists. What the Spanish government revealed later was that the train bombing was completely funded by the sale of counterfeit DVDs and CDs, and was then laundered through Al- Qaeda.” –Valerie Salembier, Senior Vice President/Publisher, Harper’s Bazaar
“Essentially, no country acting alone will be able to solve this. There are partnerships between companies and police departments and the legal system that can work. I am very hopeful that technology will generate opportunities that we cannot now even imagine. Technology provides far more hope in the future.” –Dr. Moisés Naím, Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy and author of Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy
“The city [of New York], we estimate—and a recent report by Comptroller Bill Thompson confirms this—loses a billion dollars in tax revenue from illegal trademark counterfeiting every year. A billion dollars could fund 10,000 new cops, 10,000 new firefighters, 10,000 new teachers.” –Ed Skyler, Deputy Mayor of Operations, New York City
“Trade in counterfeit and pirated goods undermines the health and the prospects of a healthy economy, and now with the growing risks to health and human safety, it’s an additional reason why it’s such an important problem for us.” –Rachel Bae, Director for Intellectual Property and Innovation, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
"Just this year, we had two manufacturing locations in Canada dismantled. One was making Ecstasy along with Viagra, the other one was making steroids along with Viagra. So they sell and manufacture whatever people buy, and knowingly." –Patrick Ford, Senior Director Global Security, Americas Region, Pfizer, Inc.
“It certainly takes money out of the hands of hard-working Americans, Chinese, Australians, or wherever you might be manufacturing your product, because we can’t employ those people because products are being bought by illicit means. And so that means fewer people go to work.” –Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chief Business Development Officer and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company
“In the software industry, the estimates are that over one-third of products, approximately 35%, are pirated. And the cost to the industry as a whole in lost sales is approximately $40 billion a year. Of course this doesn’t just impact large companies. It impacts small companies, it impacts the ability of start-ups, it impacts the ability to innovate, and it impacts all the other people who are involved in the ecosystem outside of the actual software developers.” –Thomas C. Rubin, Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property Strategy, Microsoft
Kodak
Kodak has been at the forefront of anticounterfeiting with innovative technologies such as the KODAK Traceless System. The Traceless System is an ultra-covert authentication technology that protects against fraud and counterfeiting. This revolutionary technology is already providing anticounterfeiting protection for customers in a wide variety of applications including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and wine.
Click here to visit Kodak.com and learn more.
Microsoft
Microsoft has led an ongoing effort to fight piracy, most recently with a new educational website called HowToTell.com to help their customers spot counterfeits. The site offers comparison guides, a counterfeit gallery, and the essential things to know before you buy.
Click here to visit HowToTell.com and learn more.
Click here to read about our 2007 summits in London and New York City.
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