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  • IKEA faces legal action over alleged copyright infringement

    American furniture brand Emeco is to sue IKEA for damages for allegedly copying a chair designed by Norman Foster. More

    Marcus Fairs | 25 March 2015 | 28 comments
  • "China's copying days are coming to an end" says Design Shanghai creative director

    China's days as a major producer of fake designer goods are numbered, according to Design Shanghai's creative director Ross Urwin. More

    Dan Howarth | 11 March 2015 | 7 comments
  • Bombo stool by Stefano Giovannoni is world's "most copied" design product

    Design Indaba 2015: the Bombo stool is "the most copied design product in the world," according to its designer Stefano Giovannoni. More

    Marcus Fairs | 26 February 2015 | 5 comments
  • UK government sets 2020 deadline to end replica furniture production

    Business news: the UK government has finally set a date for the introduction of its new copyright protection law, making it illegal to manufacture or sell copies of mass-produced designs after 2020. More

    Dan Howarth | 20 February 2015 | 7 comments
  • "To tar all replica furniture companies with the same brush is neither fair nor accurate"

    Opinion: earlier this month Vitra's Tony Ash argued that copyists are "eating away at the very creativity of our industry". In response, Chris Diemer of replica furniture company Voga argues that firms like his are making good design affordable for the masses. More

    Chris Diemer | 29 January 2015 | 54 comments
  • "Copyists are eating away at the creativity of our industry"

    Opinion: the UK is one of only three European countries failing to protect designers from intellectual property theft – damaging both their income and the reputation of their products, says Tony Ash, managing director for design brand Vitra. More

    Tony Ash | 8 January 2015 | 40 comments
  • Design brands attack UK government over copyright law delay

    News: design brands including Vitra, Artek and Flos have joined forces to attack the UK government for delaying the implementation of a law that would outlaw the sale of copies of their furniture and lighting products. More

    Marcus Fairs | 22 September 2014 | 20 comments
  • Royal College of Art graduate "technically" guilty of plagiarism

    News: a former Royal College of Art student has been found "technically" guilty of plagiarism and misconduct after a company complained that his graduate design project was similar to its own services. More

    Marcus Fairs | 12 August 2014 | 20 comments
  • Atopia "not going to answer" questions over Olympic images

    News: the design firm that claimed Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron bore "a striking resemblance" to its own work and this week received a financial settlement may never have shown images of its concept to London's Olympic organisers, it has emerged. More

    Marcus Fairs | 25 July 2014 | 8 comments
  • Dispute over 2012 Olympic cauldron design settled out of court

    News: London 2012 Olympics organisers have agreed an out-of-court settlement with American firm Atopia following a legal dispute over the iconic 2012 cauldron design by Thomas Heatherwick. More

    Anna Winston | 23 July 2014 | 1 comment
  • Royal College of Art investigates plagiarism claim

    News: the Royal College of Art is investigating claims that one of its graduates plagiarised an existing design after a Finnish company complained that its reusable packaging concept had been copied. More

    Marcus Fairs | 10 July 2014 | 18 comments
  • Maaike Roozenburg combines augmented reality and digital prototyping to create smart fakes

    Dutch designer Maaike Roozenburg uses 3D printing to create replicas of antique objects enhanced with a layer of augmented reality information in her SmartReplicas project, reports Gabrielle Kennedy (+ slideshow). More

    Anna Winston | 6 July 2014 | 1 comment
  • "Don't be afraid to learn by copying others"

    Opinion: Slovakian designer Tomáš Libertíny, who wrote to Dezeen last month accusing a major advertising agency of exploiting his work, reflects on the nature of copying in design and argues that imitating the work of others should be an integral part of any designer's education.  More

    Marcus Fairs | 8 August 2013 | 5 comments
  • Honeycomb vase designer says whisky campaign "unabashedly exploits" his work

    News: a designer who developed a technique for harnessing bees to create physical objects has accused a major brand of exploiting his work. More

    Marcus Fairs | 24 July 2013 | 16 comments
  • Beijing Design Week confronts copying in China with giant rubber duck

    News: the organisers of Beijing Design Week plan to emphasise problems with copyright in China by exhibiting an original version of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's giant Rubber Duck, which was duplicated around the country when it recently appeared in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 26 June 2013 | 7 comments
  • "We never claimed to be designers of the cauldron" says Atopia

    News: New York design studio Atopia has moved to defuse the row over the authorship of the 2012 Olympic cauldron, saying: "we have never accused Thomas Heatherwick of plagiarism". More

    Marcus Fairs | 22 June 2013 | 6 comments
  • Dezeen archive: copying in design

    Dezeen archive: following claims that Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron design isn't original, we've compiled our top stories about copying in design. More

    Dan Howarth | 21 June 2013 | Leave a comment
  • Thomas Heatherwick rejects claims that Olympic cauldron is a copy as "spurious nonsense"

    News: Thomas Heatherwick has denied any knowledge of a design presented to the London Olympic committee in 2007 by an American firm, which bears a strong resemblance to his cauldron used at the climax of last summer's Olympic opening ceremony. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 20 June 2013 | 47 comments
  • Fictional bridges on Euro banknotes constructed in the Netherlands

    News: the fictional bridges depicted on Euro banknotes have been been transformed into reality at a new housing development near Rotterdam. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 5 June 2013 | 24 comments
  • UK to criminalise deliberate copying of design

    News: the deliberate copying of a design is set to become a criminal offence in the UK, in line with the law on breaching copyright and trademarks. More

    Emilie Chalcraft | 2 May 2013 | 17 comments
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