Digital platform Dupe.com has gone viral on Instagram and TikTok. It entices users to the search engine with claims that big box brands are white-labelling products and selling identical furnishings at vastly [...]
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Surprisingly, most of our contact with industry members affected by design theft are from the lighting sector! Independent designers, brands, importers and retailers are being savaged by online platforms and bricks [...]
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Learn why AUTHENTIC DESIGN ALLIANCE exists & why we urgently need to solve the replica furniture problem that’s killing the future for designers Authentic Design Alliance working with industry events to [...]
Download our ADA tabloid newspaper to learn how the growing problem of design theft in Australia began & why we must act now to protect our design industry! SO WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Stay informed about the [...]
Some of Australia’s best-known rock photographers claimed copyright infringement by an online auction of media giant Fairfax’s Sydney Morning Herald image archive. ABC news reported hundreds of original photographs [...]
How Americans fight knockoffs! Knock-offs are a huge problem the Americans take seriously. Now independent and emerging designers join heritage manufacturers in the fight against the copied designs, despite the [...]
National Gallery Australia: NGA x Replica furniture As the problem with design theft escalates it’s clear that many national gallery, museum and public institution decision-makers simply don’t know what’s real and what’s fake. Either that, or they simply don’t care. But, sadly, replica furniture resides in many galleries and public institutions in Australia. Authenticity is […]
Kate Stokes from CocoFlip “The Coco Pendant was designed at the beginning of my career and didn’t register the design as I had no concept it would be such a huge success. It was my first product shown [...]
