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How Copying a Design Cost a Developer $2.8MIn a landmark decision for intellectual property rights, the Stockholm International Arbitration Court has ordered developer Capital Group to pay Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat $2.8 million over the unauthorized use of his design for two Moscow skyscrapers.
Van Egeraat had accused Capital Group of illegally promoting itself by using a 2004 design it had commissioned from him for the Capital-City project, an imposing pair of cube-like high-rise towers within the Moskva-City development in central Moscow.
Van Egeraat also said Capital Group had handed his completed design for the towers, scheduled for completion later this year, over to another architect, Seattle-based firm NBBJ Architects, without his consent.
Van Egeraat said Capital Group had claimed that his design did not meet its required standard and had refused to pay for his work on the same grounds.
"What matters is not the money -- the main point is the infringement of copyright," van Egeraat said by telephone Tuesday from the Netherlands.
"To use other people's nice pictures and graphics to advertise your company without the owners' consent is not good for the economy and it's not good for the country."
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