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The April photo shows Lin wearing a striped white top, which looks like the Yankees jersey, standing with her left fist raised in the air against the backdrop of a baseball field. A big "NY" trademark can clearly be seen on the field.
"We've contacted the Major League Baseball in New York and the MLB has instructed us to hire Taiwanese lawyers to study relevant laws and regulations as the dispute occurred here," said Polo Tsai (蔡勇旺), marketing and sales director of Erics Sports Marketing Inc (智林運動行銷), the MLB's sole representative in Taiwan, during a telephone interview yesterday.
As the MLB has strict restrictions on licensing to protect its legal sponsors, Tsai said that whether or not China Airlines had infringed on any law would be determined soon.
Jim Small, the MLB's Asian vice president, was in Taipei on Monday to talk about the importance of gaining licensing approval during a seminar held by Erics Sports Marketing.
"Let me make it very clear. You cannot use MLB marks, Yankee marks, or any related logos without having a deal with us," Small said on Monday.
"In the last six months, we found two or three different violations," he said.
While most of the violations might have occurred because users did not what the rules were, it was essential to protect the sponsors' rights and interests, Small added.
In response, China Airlines said that the photo was provided by its advertising agency, David Advertising, said Johnson Sun (
"The advertising company would have and should have obtained the MLB's approval," Sun said.
China Airlines said it would destroy the 150,000 copies of the calendar if it were found to have broken the law.
Among the rows of vibrators, rubber torsos and leather harnesses at a Chinese sex toys exhibition in Shanghai this weekend, the beginnings of an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven shift in the industry quietly pulsed. China manufactures about 70 percent of the world’s sex toys, most of it the “hardware” on display at the fair — whether that be technicolor tentacled dildos or hyper-realistic personalized silicone dolls. Yet smart toys have been rising in popularity for some time. Many major European and US brands already offer tech-enhanced products that can enable long-distance love, monitor well-being and even bring people one step closer to
Malaysia’s leader yesterday announced plans to build a massive semiconductor design park, aiming to boost the Southeast Asian nation’s role in the global chip industry. A prominent player in the semiconductor industry for decades, Malaysia accounts for an estimated 13 percent of global back-end manufacturing, according to German tech giant Bosch. Now it wants to go beyond production and emerge as a chip design powerhouse too, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said. “I am pleased to announce the largest IC (integrated circuit) Design Park in Southeast Asia, that will house world-class anchor tenants and collaborate with global companies such as Arm [Holdings PLC],”
Sales in the retail, and food and beverage sectors last month continued to rise, increasing 0.7 percent and 13.6 percent respectively from a year earlier, setting record highs for the month of March, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday. Sales in the wholesale sector also grew last month by 4.6 annually, mainly due to the business opportunities for emerging applications related to artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing technologies, the ministry said in a report. The ministry forecast that retail, and food and beverage sales this month would retain their growth momentum as the former would benefit from Tomb Sweeping Day
Thousands of parents in Singapore are furious after a Cordlife Group Ltd (康盛人生集團), a major operator of cord blood banks in Asia, irreparably damaged their children’s samples through improper handling, with some now pursuing legal action. The ongoing case, one of the worst to hit the largely untested industry, has renewed concerns over companies marketing themselves to anxious parents with mostly unproven assurances. This has implications across the region, given Cordlife’s operations in Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The parents paid for years to have their infants’ cord blood stored, with the understanding that the stem cells they contained