A verdict has finally been reached in a court case in Belgium where master woodcarver Patrick Damiaens had sued store chain Zara Home for breach of copyright, when the chain began selling candles with a design which he said had been stolen from him.
Zara Home claimed that the similarity was a coincidence (though they did pull the candles from sale).
Take a look and see if you think that the similarity was "a coincidence" or not. The Zara Home candle is on the left; Mr. Damiaens' carving is on the right.
![](http://www.flanderstoday.eu/sites/default/files/webimages/damiaens_v_zara_home_comparison.jpg)
Yeah, the court didn't buy that argument, either, and ordered Zara Home to pay damages and legal costs, and to publish the decision in Heraldisch Tijdshrift, a Dutch magazine focused on heraldic art.
More details about the court case, as well as a link to an earlier story about this design theft, can be found on the website of FlandersToday at http://www.flanderstoday.eu/living/limburg-artisan-wins-zara-plagiarism-court-case
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