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Copyright dispute forces Japan to redesign coin
AFP, April, 2008
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TOKYO (AFP) — After minting 4.8 million commemorative coins, Japan said Wednesday it must change the design due to copyright infringement.
The original design of the coin, celebrating the centenary of Japanese emigration to Brazil, showed bronze sculptures of parents and a child standing in Santos, Brazil, where the first batch of immigrants landed in 1908.
But the Brazilian sculptor of the work refused to let the design be used for the 500-yen (five dollar) coin, the Japanese finance ministry said.
Japan originally announced the creation of the coin in April 2007, with an aim to distribute it by the end of March 2008, believing that an immigrants association in Brazil owned the bronze memorial.
But the association later found that the artist also held the right to his work.
The new design will feature the ship that took the first Japanese immigrants to Brazil, placed ...
