Collector had 222 items illegally copied in China
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/10/10
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Three people who copied 222 typical pieces of sculptor Ju
Ju Ming work at the Academia Sinica in Taipei (photo courtesy of Hsuan Shih-sheng 玄史生) (By Wikimedia Commons)
Ming (朱銘) will have to pay him NT$120.9 million (US$3.98 million), the Shilin District Court ruled Tuesday.
Ju, 79, is a world-famous sculptor whose typical sculptures are on view around the world, but especially at the Juming Museum in the hills of Jinshan, close to Taiwan’s northern coast in New Taipei City.
A prominent art collector named as Yeh Jung-chia (葉榮嘉) needed to auction off his collection of famous taichi works by Ju for financial reasons, but because he wanted to hold on to the masterpieces, he colluded with two businessmen to copy the works, the court said.
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