Counter Research Project

COUNTER Consumer Survey

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COUNTER Research Project

COUNTER is a European research project exploring the consumption of counterfeit and pirated leisure goods. It is a 24 month project running until the end of March 2010. Funded by the European Commission’s Framework 7 programme, the COUNTER research project is designed to collect data, generate knowledge and disseminate findings on the European landscape for the consumption of counterfeit consumer goods.

It proposes a research project that explores:

Frequency and distribution of counterfeits
Consumer attitudes to counterfeit and pirated goods
Legal and ethical frameworks for intellectual property
Policy options for engaging with the consumers of counterfeits
The use of copyrighted goods in the creation of new cultural artefacts
Impacts of counterfeiting and control of intellectual property.

COUNTER will collect data on consumer behaviour, policy development, and stakeholder engagement. Together, these will allow COUNTER’s research to integrate demand-consumption side issues with policy implications.

Further details on the organisation of COUNTER’s research is available here.

The COUNTER project brings together a team of European researchers from the UK, Austria, Sweden, Italy, Slovenia in order to develop a multi-disciplinary and multi-method approach to counterfeit goods and intellectual property that draws upon the strengths of economics, sociology, law, psychology, and management and information science.

By developing an innovative research framework, the project will generate new policy and industry relevant knowledge and develop a research agenda which can be developed and implemented and inform future research.

The COUNTER research team is made up of the following researchers: