Court turns down museum logo claim
Three designers who claimed the newly-designed logo of the Palace Museum violated copyrights of their own designs have lost their case.
The trio all put forward their own images for selection when the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, invited new logo suggestions from the public last year.
But in May this year, museum leaders announced none of the applications from the public were accepted, and turned to Beijing Ideal Design Art Company to design the logo instead.
Yesterday, the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court rejected accusations from three designers Zhu Yanyue from Anhui, Hong Qingqi from Fujian and Xiang Baiping from Shaanxi that the design, which was unveiled in July, copied their own efforts.
They launched a lawsuit for a combined total of 130,000 yuan (US$16,100).
But the court did not support charges from the three plaintiffs that the Ideal company had seen their layouts before designing the logo.
“The court did not believe the logo of the Palace Museum is similar to any of the designs of the three plaintiffs,” presiding judge Zhang Xiaojin said.
(Source: China Daily)
