urban market in LA thrives from sales of knock off merchandise
http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-wk-cover15dec15,0,7964577.story?coll=la-home-style
"Stores selling merchandise with popular TV and television characters are everywhere, but buyer beware. They may or may not be licensed.
"In any of the toy districts around the country, if one is walking down the street and sees stores or manufacturers who one would not normally associate with a Sesame Street Workshop … or any of the other companies that produce toys," the products might be unauthorized, says Steve Weinberg, an intellectual property attorney in Santa Monica who's litigated a number of cases involving toys."
this particular article is about the "cheap toy district" in LA, where the author notes that most of the business owners are form asia. Most of the stores get their products form asia, according to the article. Many of the toys aren't knock offs, though, branded with names many of the purchasers have never seen before, which might show early attempts of chinese companies to develop brand recognition in the US. many of the names seem impregnated with the japanese "odor" many mainstream companies try to avoid, according to some of the readings formt he class: Potex, Gealex, the ormer's Jam Drum drum machine, and the latters "magical tune" playing Electronic Beauty Set bear the mistranslations of makers not adept with english. most of the sellers are wholesale only.
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