The 38th Hong Kong Film Awards is about to hold an awards ceremony on April 14, and former TVB artist Zhou Jiayi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress this year for the movie "Peerless", which is the first time she has entered the industry for more than 20 years, of course, it is gratifying, she herself was excited when she learned that she was shortlisted, after all, the effort has finally paid off. Recently, in order to congratulate her on her nomination for the Academy Awards and wish her a prize, her friends specially created an imitation OffidelIty trophy for her, which unexpectedly caused a lot of turmoil and caused great dissatisfaction from the official of the Academy Awards.
Friends who often follow TVB should not be too strange to Zhou Jiayi, she can also be regarded as a well-known artist of TVB, joined TVB in 1998, although she has never really been a heroine (the highest position to the third heroine), but her acting skills have always been outstanding, better than many Hua Dan, and she has also made a deep impression on her roles with distinct personalities in Qi Qiyi's episodes. Zhou Jiayi left TVB for 15 years in 2012, and has since developed independently in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, TV and movies, although it is still not the role of the heroine, but the opportunity to play is greater than before in TVB, just like the inspector played in "Peerless", which is highly acclaimed, so it is well deserved to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Zhou Jiayi has been in the industry for nearly 20 years, and has never been recognized by awards issued by relatively large institutions, including the previous 15 years on TVB, and only once in 2009 was shortlisted for "Leap Forward Female Artist", so this time the nomination for the best supporting actress at the Academy Awards for the first time must be very happy, even if it is only the nomination without the award, it is a huge encouragement. And Zhou Jiayi did show an excitement after learning of the shortlisting, her friends were also happy for her, so before the award ceremony was officially held, symbolically created a imitation golden statue trophy for her, wishing her to get the award, and although she got only a fake trophy, Zhou Jiayi was also very happy, and shared this happy event on social platforms, did not expect to cause "trouble".
Counterfeit trophies
After Sharing the trophy on social platforms, Zhou Jiayi attracted the attention of the hong Kong Academy Awards officials, and the relevant spokesperson said that the Trophy has been registered as a trademark, and if it is created without official permission, it is suspected of infringement. For the imitation trophy that Zhou Jiayi posted, this imitation trophy is similar to the real Academy Awards trophy in terms of shape as high as 99.9%, including some details involved, such as the fork waist of the trophy figure, the thickness of the calf is the same as the real thing, so the official has reason to believe that the other party is not unknowing when making this trophy, it is intentional infringement, and the Academy Awards Organizing Committee will reserve the right to pursue, which means that Zhou Jiayi is likely to cause a lawsuit because of this.
It was originally just an impromptu joke, but it caused a lawsuit, and even the most happy things will become unhappy. In this regard, Zhou Jiayi quickly post-processed the imitation Academy Award photos posted before and covered up the fake trophies. In addition, she also publicly apologized to the Academy Awards Organizing Committee through the media, and asked the other party not to pursue this matter, not to pursue her friends, emphasizing that the friend originally created this imitation trophy just to make her happy, and had no other ideas, let alone for commercial purposes. Afterwards, Zhou Jiayi quickly deleted the original photo, and once again left a message to apologize to the Academy Awards, and once again asked the Academy Awards Organizing Committee not to pursue the matter.
For Zhou Jiayi on the social platform to post counterfeit trophies and was warned by the Academy Awards, netizens have different attitudes, many people think that the Academy Awards are making a fuss, originally just an entertainment thing, had to go online to discourage. Some people also think that the Academy Awards Organizing Committee is not wrong, after all, it has registered a trademark, of course, there is no room for the emergence of counterfeit products, the key is that the imitation trophy is too realistic, which is no wonder the Academy Awards Organizing Committee is in a hurry. In this matter, Zhou Jiayi is indeed a loss, but the Academy Awards should also be considered as appropriate, there is no need to go to court. For Zhou Jiayi, in fact, her biggest worry should not be the fake trophy to cause a lawsuit, but more worried that the Academy Awards will "abandon" her because of this, which shows that she still cares about the "Best Supporting Actress" award.
ps: The pictures are from the Internet