Xiaomi admits that the poster plagiarism: has expelled the employees involved
On June 20th, Beijing time, after Xiaomi exposed the news of poster plagiarism, Xiaomi immediately issued a statement saying that the poster had been deleted from the official website and the relevant designers were expelled. Xiaomi also said that it will strengthen the company's internal approval process of art works to prevent such incidents from happening again.
Previously, Xiaomi's official website in Spain released some publicity maps. However, some of the eye-catching Spanish media have seen at a glance that one of these propaganda pictures is a copy of the work of the 3D artist Peter Tarka.
Taka created the work in May 2018, but Xiaomi was never authorized to use his work, nor did he commission him to create. He said: "I am 100% certain that they used my work, because everything is very matching, they only changed the saturation, and modified some elements to make it less obvious." Obviously, Xiaomi infringed this time.