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Culture: Taipei Palace Museum urges boycott of copycat gadgets

One year after the Taipei Palace Museum introduced an "emperor gadget", it has had to go out of its way to guard the copyright against widely available copycats being sold online. The gadget is a type of adhesive tape with the red ink characters zhenzhidaole, meaning the emperor has got the knowledge of an incident or a fact without approval or objection on it. The red ink royal script was issued by Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Five hundred copies of the script were sold each day after it came out, but they soon came up against rival e-business dealers flooding the online Taobao shopping mall and selling copies, which were much cheaper than the originals.