As the 2024 Paris Olympics draws to a close, counterfeit Olympic medals have been found to be being sold on some Chinese e-commerce platforms.
According to China’s First Finance and other sources on the 11th (local time), you can easily find related products by searching for ‘Paris Olympic medals’ on Pinduoduo (?多多), Jingdong.com (京?), Taobao (淘?), and TikTok (?音).
The appearance of the medals sold on the platform is almost identical to the medals won by the athletes at the Paris Olympics. The prices are known to range from 111 to 402 yuan (about 20,000 to 77,000 won).
In fact, one medal being sold on Taobao was purchased by more than 100 people in just one week, and over 1,000 people added it to their shopping carts.
Pinduoduo also sold 231 Olympic medals marked as “new products,” and JD.com even advertised them as “1:1 replica souvenir medals of the 2024 Paris Olympics.”
When asked if the medal was the same as an Olympic gold medal, the seller confidently replied, “The medal is ‘similar’ to an Olympic gold medal.”
According to the gold medal information released by the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee, the gold medal is 85mm in diameter, 9.2mm thick, and weighs 529g. Of this, 6g is gold and the rest is silver. The center of the medal also includes an iron piece of the Eiffel Tower weighing about 18g.
However, counterfeit medals sold on Chinese platforms are generally made of zinc alloy and weigh approximately 340g and have a diameter of 85mm, which is somewhat different from the real medals.
Most consumers are said to be purchasing them for collecting purposes, but experts point out that such counterfeit medals may be legally problematic.
A lawyer from law firm Henan Jejin explained, “Olympic medals generally include the Olympic rings and Olympic emblems, which are protected by the regulations on the protection of Olympic logos.”
In fact, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) strongly protects the Olympics as “Olympic property” by registering the Olympic name, Olympic rings, and competition emblems in each country.
Regarding this, he criticized, “No one can use the Olympic logo for commercial purposes without the permission of the Olympic logo rights holder,” and “selling counterfeit Olympic medals is a violation of the Olympic logo monopoly.”
He also said, “The design and pattern of the gold medal are protected by copyright law,” and “Acts such as copying and distributing without the permission of the copyright holder constitute copyright infringement.”
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