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Hadid says Japan trying to take stadium design copyrights Hadid says Japan trying to take stadium design copyrights
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TOKYO — British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid says the Japan Sport Council is withholding money owed for work on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium design while demanding her company give up claims to copyrights.TOKYO — British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid says the Japan Sport Council is withholding money owed for work on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium design while demanding her company give up claims to copyrights.
Staff at the Japan Sport Council said it was looking into allegations by Zaha Hadid Architects that it was demanding a transfer of the copyright for the design work in exchange for an overdue final payment. Staff at the Japan Sport Council on Thursday said they are looking into allegations by London-based Zaha Hadid Architects, or ZHA, that it was demanding a transfer of the copyright for the design work in exchange for an overdue final payment.
Last summer, Japan scrapped the initial plans drawn up by Hadid as too costly. Hadid’s original design was rejected as too costly. She has complained the new design chosen by the Sport Council, by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, draws heavily from her earlier work.
Hadid has complained the new design chosen by the Sport Council, by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, draws heavily from her earlier work. Her company said in a statement Thursday that the Sport Council also was demanding that Hadid not comment in exchange for payment for her team’s work. Hadid’s company said it has been trying since October to obtain the payment by the Sport Council. The amount of the payment was not given.
“We can confirm that we received and rejected a written request from the Japan Sport Council to modify our existing contract to allow the transfer of the copyright of the detailed design for Japan National Stadium, owned by ZHA, in exchange for an overdue final payment,” the company said in a statement.
ZHA’s statement said it had also refused to sign another new clause for the contract, in exchange for the payment, requiring her design team to not “provide information or comment on the project.”
The company said it hoped to resolve the disagreement over intellectual property for the stadium design.
The consortium working on the new stadium includes two Japanese companies that earlier worked with Hadid. The outer structure of Kuma’s design is smaller and more understated than Hadid’s, which was likened by some critics to a bicycle helmet or spaceship that would have jarred with the surrounding landscape. But details of the layout and internal aspects of the structure are considered to be similar.
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