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Student
wins copyright protection contest with copied work
Thursday, September 23, 2010 03:05:42 PM,
DPA
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Taipei:
Taiwan Thursday revoked the prize in the Protect Copyright Design
Contest after discovering the winner copied the work of a Dutch
designer to win the competition.
The Intellectual Property Office, the organiser of the contest,
said it disqualified Wu Chih-wei and asked him to return the medal
and cash award of 5,000 Taiwan dollars ($156).
"The contest's purpose is to make the public respect the
intellectual property of other people," the office said. "If
someone copies other people's work to join the contest, it runs
counter to this purpose, and this person must bear the legal
consequences."
Wu, a student from Douliou's National Yunlin University of Science
and Technology, won the top prize in the student section of the
November contest with a design showing a paper aeroplane plunging
because its tail was broken.
The title of the entry was "Work - Shattered".
But a Taiwan woman, identified only by her family name of Lee,
alerted the Intellectual Property Office Tuesday that Wu had
copied the work of Dutch designer Dennis Sibeijn.
Sibeijn's image, entitled "Truth", is shown on his website.
Wu admitted copying the work, saying he did it because he needed
the money, said Chiang Yu-hua of the Intellectual Property Office.
"When we contacted him, Wu realised he had committed a crime and
said he was absolutely distraught and was very sorry," she said.
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