If you've been looking for fake bags, watches and jewelry on EBay, you can carry right on doing it now that the site has won an important battle with luxury jeweller Tiffany, after a US court said that the Internet company would not be held liable for the sale of counterfeit jewelry on its site. Tiffany sued eBay in 2004, claiming that most of the items listed as Tiffany goods on the auction site were fakes. However, a federal court in the Southern District of New York, ruled yesterday that the jeweler was responsible for policing its own trademarks. If Tiffany had won the case it would have forced eBay to make huge changes to its online auction system to prevent the sale of counterfeit goods, such as taking physical possession of goods on sale to check them for authenticity. Personally, I find it much easier and definitely cheaper, to stroll around Canal Street in New York's China Town.
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