The Supreme Court decides to dismiss the appeal from the shopping district in a trial in which an artist man sued that his work was imitated for an object that allows goldfish to swim in a telephone box-shaped water tank set up in a shopping district in Nara Prefecture. The decision of the two courts, which ordered the destruction of the object and compensation for infringement of the copyright, was finalized.
The shopping street in Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture, created an object that allows goldfish to swim in a water tank in the shape of a telephone booth, and exhibited it until three years ago, making it a tourist attraction. Claimed to have imitated his work, which he made about 20 years ago, and asked the union in the shopping district to dispose of the object and compensate.
The first trial dismissed the complaint, but the Osaka High Court of the second trial said in January, "The objects in the shopping district are thought to have been created based on the work that demonstrated Mr. Yamamoto's individuality. He pointed out that he was infringing his rights, and admitted the complaint, and ordered the shopping district to dispose of the object and compensate for 550,000 yen.
In response to this, the shopping district side appealed, but Koichi Kusano, the judge of the second small court of the Supreme Court, decided to dismiss by the 27th, and the judgment of the second trial that admitted Mr. Yamamoto's complaint was finalized.