Palace Museum sued over new logo

From: China Daily | Date: November 3, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Three designers, who lost out in a competition to design a logo for Beijing's Palace Museum, have taken the museum to court.

Zhu Yanyue from Anhui, Hong Qingqi from Fujian, and Xiang Baiping from Shaanxi are suing for a combined total of 130,000 yuan (US$16,100). They all say the Palace Museum's new logo bears an uncanny resemblance to their own designs, rejected by the museum a year ago.

Sources with the Palace Museum and the credited logo designer, the Beijing Ideal Design Art Company, deny the charges.

The defendants say the logo, released in July, was designed independently and does not ...

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