During the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics held in Sochi, Russia, when the edelweiss bloomed into the five Olympic rings, a snowflake in the upper right corner failed to bloom smoothly, causing the “five rings” to become the “four rings”. event. For this reason, some domestic merchants have launched “Sochi fault T-shirts” to take advantage of the opportunity to make money, and they are quite popular. A search on Taobao revealed a large number of them.
In this regard, the lawyer said that the merchant’s behavior was suspected of infringement. “Because the five rings turned into four rings during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics was not intentionally designed by the organizers, but an accident; but the change of the five Olympic rings into the shape of edelweiss was designed by the organizers, even if the work did not The complete display does not affect the copyright of the “Four Olympic Rings” owned by the organizer. The act of printing the “Edelweiss Olympic Ring Design” with the copyright owned by the organizer of the Winter Olympics on clothes has not been authorized by the organizer. , therefore it is an infringement.”
