Taiwan sculptor Ju Ming awarded US$3.98 million in copyright case

台灣雕塑家朱銘在版權案中獲判398萬美元

Collector had 222 items illegally copied in China




From 2010 to 2012, he had the sculptures copied in China before selling them to collectors in Taiwan or keeping them for himself, while one of the men he cooperated with also imported fakes and distributed them to unwitting art lovers with forged certificates of authenticity, according to the court.

Some of the plotters also contacted a smith who actually worked with Ju himself to join in their machinations, a report by the Central News Agency said.

A total of eight defendants were handed prison sentences, some of them suspended, while Yeh and two other men were sentenced to a total payment of NT$120.9 million to Ju, reports said.