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10:31, November 20, 2007 |
Carrefour supermarket in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo and a textile producer have both lost a lawsuit that involved the sale of bedding with designs that infringed upon a painter's copyright, under a Shanghai court ruling.
The lawsuit was filed by a painter surnamed Lu in east China's Jiangsu Province.
He contended that the patterns on pillow and quilt covers produced by Shanghai Leite Textiles Produce Co. Ltd. and sold in Ningbo Carrefour were identical to a painting that he had registered in the provincial copyright bureau in May 2005.
The Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court ruled that the textile company's use of the pattern was unauthorized and infringed upon Lu's copyright.
It ordered the textile company to stop using the pattern and pay 20,000 yuan (about 2,600 U.S. dollars) in damages.
The court imposed no fines on Carrefour, but ordered it to stop selling the products.
Source: Xinhua
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