An awards scheme with a difference: here’s to the imitators and plagiarisers

In the film industry, awards season is in full swing. While the Academy Awards will make international headlines this month for celebrating the best of the silver screen, in Germany there has been a flurry of media coverage of a rather different type of awards programme – one that hands a statuette of a black gnome with a golden nose to organisations that are allegedly exploiting the IP of other parties.