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Implementing Official Telegram No. 38/CD-TTg of the Prime Minister on strengthening the fight, preventing and handling acts of intellectual property rights infringement, the Economic Police Department of Ho Chi Minh City Police has just prosecuted the case and prosecuted the defendant against Hoang Thi Bich Ngoc to investigate the crime of Copyright infringement according to the provisions of Article 225 of the Penal Code. Download Accused Hoang Thi Bich Ngoc at the police station - Photo: Ho Chi Minh City Police According to Ho Chi Minh City Police, the initial investigation results determined that the designer - owner of the ao dai brand Do Trinh Hoai Nam is the author and legal owner of the Letter from the City Ao Dai Collection, which has been granted a Copyright Registration Certificate by the Copyright Department in accordance with the law. The work has been widely published through cultural events, fashion shows and media. Even though she knew the work was protected by copyright and had not been authorized by the rights owner, Hoang Thi Bich Ngoc (born in 1986; residing in Tan Son Nhi ward, Ho Chi Minh City) still copied the image of the design in the Letters from the City Collection, using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to process the images, then directed staff to edit and complete the design file to serve the production, advertising and sales of ao dai fabric products with the brand Dat Lanh Ao Dai Fabric. The investigation process determined that production and business activities are organized according to an enterprise model with a commercial scale, with design, sales, production departments, large industrial machinery, logistics, and accounting; using many social network accounts, online sales groups, and a system of professional collaborators to promote on cyberspace and consume products in many provinces and cities, most concentrated in Hanoi city. The Copyright Protection Center has concluded that there is a copying between the copyright-protected ao dai design form of Designer Do Trinh Hoai Nam and the ao dai fabric product produced and sold by Dat Lanh Ao Dai Fabric Printing Co., Ltd. Notably, after the incident was discovered, Hoang Thi Bich Ngoc asked her staff to delete data, messages, images and posts related to the infringing designs on the social network system and internal exchange groups of the business to hide the behavior and deal with the authorities. Currently, the Ho Chi Minh City Police Investigation Agency is continuing to investigate and expand the case, clarifying all criminal acts and responsibilities of individuals and organizations. related to handle in accordance with the law. Anh Tho See moreProsecution of large-scale food and counterfeit food producers See moreChief of Office of the Ministry of Public Security: Prosecuted 56 cases, 98 defendants for violating intellectual property rights See moreProsecution and temporary detention of the former head of the Dong Hoi City Civil Judgment Enforcement Branch See moreProsecution of the school violence case that killed an 8th grade male student committed suicide in Lam Dong
