, The New York Times; Paraguay Loves Mickey, Its Cartoon Mouse. Disney Doesn’t.
"Paraguayans are notoriously creative — some would say light-fingered — when it comes to intellectual property.
Factories churn out knockoff Nike, Lacoste, and Adidas clothing.Paraguay’s educational authorities warned last year that Harvard University Paraguay — in Ciudad del Este, the country’s second-largest city and a counterfeiting hot spot — was awarding bogus medical degrees. (The school has no connection to the more famous Harvard.)
Paraguay ranks 86th out of 125 countries in an index compiled by the Property Rights Alliance, a research institute based in Washington, scoring 1.7 out of 10 for copyright protection."
