Product and brand piracyStarting signal for 'Plagiarius' competition 2020
Once again this year, entrepreneurs, designers and inventors have the opportunity to submit their original products and alleged imitations to the 'Plagiarius' competition and nominate the plagiarist as the winner of the negative prize.
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2nd place in the 2019 Plagiarius competition: The plagiarized version (right) of the 'Liebherr wheel loader' toy excavator is smaller than the original from the Fürth-based company Bruder Spielwaren (left) - but the design, technology and proportions have been copied 1:1. The cheap materials (housing, wheels...) and the poor workmanship (unstable, loose small parts) reflect the inferior quality, according to the Plagiarius campaign.