IP Outreach in Practice > IP Crime
Overview
Organizer: | Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) |
Country/Territory: | Canada |
Language: | English French |
Focus: | Apparel Counterfeits, General Counterfeits, Software Piracy |
Outreach Tools: | Exhibitions |
Target Audience: | General Public |
Details
Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) "Fakes and Forgeries: Yesterday and Today" (travelling) exhibition (2010-):
- takes a closer look at the devious business of fakery, displaying 115 real/fake artifacts from the ROM's own collections and examples from today’s marketplace, revealing how real some fakes actually appear
- includes contemporary fakes of modern designer brands such as Nike shoes, Calvin Klein jeans, a Maple Leaf Jersey and educational information about pirated computer software courtesy of Microsoft Canada as well as sections on counterfeit currency provided by the Bank of Canada
- teaches visitors how to tell authentic pieces from sly forgeries and lets them discover the fascinating lengths forgers will go to hoodwink the unwary
The 1,500-square-foot exhibition features 11 cases, each devoted to a different category of artifacts and their corresponding forgeries; every display provides hints on how to tell the real from the fraudulent and provides the visitor with a chance to guess an authentic artifact or specimen from an almost identical forgery; seven cases feature items from the ROM’s collection, panning the Museum’s dual mandate of Natural History and World Cultures; two cases display modern knock-offs ranging from black market DVDs to designer brand clothing and accessories
Links
http://citynews.video.citytv.com/video/60669186001/New-ROM-Exhibit/
https://www.wipo.int/ip-outreach/en/tools/practice/popups/popup_rom.html
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=55823
http://www.rom.on.ca/exhibitions/special/fakes_fr.php
http://www.rom.on.ca/exhibitions/special/fakes.php
http://www.rom.on.ca/media/podcasts/display.php?id=118
http://www.rom.on.ca/news/releases/public.php?mediakey=ls8exndmpy
[Date Added/Updated: Jan 21, 2010]