Rewards offered for information on logo infringement

Tajikistan News.Net
Tuesday 13th May, 2008 (IANS)

Beijing, May 13 (Xinhua) Beijing is using the carrot of huge rewards to citizens who report Olympic logo infringement cases in the run-up to the Games. Persons who step forward with information will be rewarded with five percent of what lawbreakers are fined, according to a regulation jointly issued by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce and the Legal Affairs Department of the Beijing Organising Committee.

The largest rewards will be $14,286, the regulation said. Last year, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce dealt with 95 such infringement cases and imposed $147,143 in fines. The drive was launched to step up crackdown on infringement upon the copyrights of Olympic logos, such as manufacturing and using without authorisation.

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