Chinese Court Orders Artist Ye Yongqing to Pay More than $670,000 for Plagiarism Scandal

A Chinese appeals court upheld a previous ruling requiring Chinese artist Ye Yongqing to pay €650,000 ($670,469) in damages and issue an apology in a major Chinese newspaper within ten days for plagiarizing the work of Belgian artist Christian Silvain. According to Artdependence, the court also warned that failure to comply with the ruling could result in Ye’s imprisonment. The decision marks the conclusion of a five-year legal battle that began in 2019 when the strikin