KOMPAS.com – Every year since 2006, the United States (US) Department of Commerce has been diligently releasing a watch list, aka “Notorious Market List” which contains global companies, suspected of selling counterfeit goods or pirated which infringes copyright.
Last week, they finally release Notorious Market List 2021 edition. In it, there are 42 platforms or companies online suspected of having been involved in or facilitating the sale of counterfeit goods.
From dozens of platforms online In addition, there are a number of new companies that are included in the list of companies monitored by the US government.
Three of them are two marketplace from Indonesia, namely Bukalapak and Tokopediaas well as one e-commerce from Singapore who also operates in Indonesia, namely Shopee.
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according to US Department of Commercemany branded goods sold at Bukalapak are labeled as counterfeit products or counterfeit goods (replicas).
The same thing was found at Tokopedia, where the US Department of Commerce said it found a number of counterfeit goods from various categories, such as clothing, cosmetics, accessories, books, and so on.
Similar to Bukalapak and Tokopedia, the US Department of Commerce also claims that it has found many counterfeit goods sold on the platform Shopee in several Shopee operational markets, except Taiwan.
The US Department of Commerce said that Bukalapak, Tokopedia, and Shopee had actually made improvements to their systems, to eradicate pirated goods. However, it is considered still less effective and efficient.
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Bukalapak and Tokopedia’s Response
Regarding Bukalapak’s entry into the Notorious Market List 2021, Bukalapak AVP Marketplace Quality, Baskara Aditama, said that his party is always committed to protecting Intellectual Property Rights (HAKI) and prohibiting the sale of counterfeit and pirated goods at Bukalapak.
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“All violations of Rules of Use Bukalapak will be subject to sanctions,” Baskara explained to KompasTekno.
The External Communications Senior Lead for Tokopedia, Ekhel Chandra Wijaya, said the same thing. According to Ekhel, his party will take firm action against all forms of abuse on Tokopedia in accordance with the rules use of the platform.
“We also have the Abuse Reporting feature, where the public can report products that violate both the rules for using the Tokopedia platform and the laws that apply in Indonesia,” added Ekhel.
Despite taking firm action against the sale of illegal goods, both Bukalapak and Tokopedia have not responded directly to the US government, which has included their names on the 2021 Notorious Market List.
Apart from Bukalapak and Tokopedia, KompasTekno has also contacted the Shopee regarding the entry marketplace The Singaporean origin is added to the list of companies supervised by the US in 2021. However, as of this writing, we have not received a response regarding this matter.
What is a Notorious Market List?
As summarized KompasTekno from USTR.Gov, Monday (2/21/2022), the Notorious Market List itself is created by the US Department of Commerce every year to help raise public awareness and protect intellectual property in the US, as well as the workers and business operations there.
As for selling counterfeit goods globally, according to a representative for the US Department of Commerce, Katherine Tai, it will also damage the creative industry, especially in the US.
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“This activity also impacts those involved in the manufacture of counterfeit goods, and can pose a significant risk to the health and safety of consumers and workers around the world,” added Katherine.
In addition to Tokopedia, Bukalapak, and Shopee, a giant e-commerce AliExpress, as well as the chat platform WeChat, have also entered into US-controlled companies to sell or facilitate illegal products.
Then, there are also a number of companies that were previously on the Notorious Market List last year, and are still on the US watch list in 2021, such as Baidu, Pinduoduo, to Taobao.
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So, who has the US put on the Notorious Market List as a company? online that facilitates the sale of counterfeit and pirated goods in 2021? Check out the list below:
- 1337X
- 1FILE
- 2EMBED
- ALIEXPRESS
- BAIDU WANGPAN
- BESTBUYIPTV
- BLUEANGLEHOST
- OPENING
- CHALOOS
- CHOMIK
- CAVE
- DHGATE
- DYTT8
- EGY.BEST
- FLOKINET
- FLVTO
- FMOVIES
- INDIAMART
- ISTAR
- LIBGEN
- MP3JUICES
- MPGH
- NEWALBUMRELEASES
- PELISPLUS
- PHIMMOI
- PINDUODUO
- POPCORN TIME
- PRIVATE LAYER
- RAPIDGATOR
- RARBG
- REVENUEHITS
- RUTRACKER
- SCI-HUB
- SHABAKATY
- SHOPEE
- SPIDER
- TAOBAO
- THEPIRATEBAY
- TOKOPEDIA
- UPLOADED
- VK
- WECHAT (WEIXIN) E-COMMERCE ECOSYSTEM
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