Artist wins copyright claim over goldfish-filled phone booth in Japan

An artist won a damages suit Thursday over a claim that a merchants' association in western Japan copied one of his artworks featuring a telephone booth filled with water and goldfish.Overturning a lower court ruling, the Osaka High Court ordered the association to compensate Nobuki Yamamoto, a 64-year-old contemporary artist, with 550,000 yen ($5,200) for the copyright infringement and destroy a similar phone booth installation in a city known for its goldfish farms.The phone booth was installed at a shopping street in the city of Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, which is known for the cul…READ FULL ARTICLE