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Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator<br />
FIG. 45: Commercial Look-and-Feel: Example of “Notorious Market” Piracy Site. 79<br />
ACTION NO. 2.17: Promote best practices<br />
that bring broader awareness of online<br />
sources of legal available content. The U.S.<br />
Interagency Strategic Planning Committees<br />
on IP Enforcement, and other relevant Federal<br />
agencies, as appropriate, will assess opportunities<br />
to support public-private collaborative efforts<br />
aimed at increasing awareness of legal sources of<br />
copyrighted material online and educating users<br />
about the harmful impacts of digital piracy.<br />
ACTION NO. 2.18: Support and improve the<br />
coordination of U.S. and foreign enforcement<br />
efforts aimed to protect IP abroad, including<br />
targeting unlawful actors that infringe U.S. IPR<br />
and inhibit the growth of online sites offering<br />
legal access to content. The IPR Center will<br />
continue to support efforts to curb infringing<br />
activity overseas, including by identifying<br />
appropriate opportunities for law enforcement<br />
joint operations.<br />
7. Opportunities to Curb Sales of Counterfeit and<br />
Pirated Goods on E-Commerce Platforms.<br />
E-commerce platforms provide a thriving online<br />
marketplace in which goods can be bought and sold<br />
from anywhere in the world, by way of various models<br />
such as Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Business-to-<br />
Business (B2B), and Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C).<br />
With e-commerce sales steadily growing over the<br />
past decade and projected to reach $1.915 trillion<br />
in 2016, 80 counterfeiters (including domestic and<br />
international criminal organizations) have turned their<br />
attention to online marketplaces. 81<br />
In the online environment, consumers are often<br />
unable to distinguish meaningfully between authentic<br />
and counterfeit products. Counterfeiters, for example,<br />
will use pictures of the authentic product and will<br />
set the sales price close to the price of the genuine<br />
article, so as to hide any clear indications that their<br />
product is actually counterfeit. In light of these and<br />
other tactics, consumers are frequently unaware<br />
that the products they are buying online could be<br />
fake. One study found that nearly one out of every<br />
four online shoppers had reported unknowingly<br />
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