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Man booked for selling Star Wars, Iron Man rip-offs

By KH디지털1

Published : Feb. 11, 2016 - 10:33

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A man has been booked over suspicions of selling counterfeit merchandise of characters from popular movies like Star Wars and Iron Man, the culture ministry said Thursday.

More than 18,000 character goods that infringe copyrights were discovered at a storage unit in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, last Thursday, investigators from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said, adding the items are worth a combined 200 million won.

Some of them are deemed to be copies from Lego Legends of Chima and Marvel movies.

"Copyrights for written materials and music have been commonly infringed in the past, but now the phenomenon is spilling over to character goods," the ministry said in a statement. "We'll take this into account as we strengthen our crackdown on imports and distributions of copyrighted materials." (Yonhap)