11 April, 2007 |

The museum of counterfeit goods in Germany

Recently, the first-ever museum of the forged goods has been opened in Solingen (Germany). In an exposition near to Original Armani jeans are skillfully adjoining to its counterfeited copy. The price of these “false Armani” jeans and sunglasses are really fantastic- just 20 and 10 euros accordingly.
The idea of creation of a museum of commodity fakes was born thirty years ago, when the well-known German industrial designer Rido Busse has visited fair in Frankfurt. The stand of a certain firm from Hong Kong, producing post carriages, has driven Rido’s attention. One of these carriages was the exact copy of those one, which Rido Busse had invented and had patented some years prior to this fair. Busse was deeply shocked with such rude plagiarism. After the fair, Busse has started to collect such fakes and to struggle with any forms of falsification.
This year Busse has realized the idea - has opened a museum “Plagiarius” on the basis of his own collection of industrial plagiarism. Busse has explained that the counterfeited goods (in the overwhelming majority) are made of materials more poor quality and museum’s exhibits - the original and a fake - are located by a number with each other, at one stand. It is practically impossible to distinguish the original from plagiarism. The largest part of the fakes, represented in a museum, is from the countries of East Asia. Manufacture of forged production causes the economy of Germany damage in tens billions euro annually. Finally, this leads to loss of 50 thousand workplaces.
Now, about 250 exhibits are presented in the museum. Clothes, footwear, home appliances, electronics are among the exponents. Fakes are not only the world brands, but these are also absolutely inexpensive marks, which are on sale in cheap German supermarkets. Even the experts hardly can distinguish a copy from the original.
 

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