Lego U-turns on using bricks for political art after clash with Ai Weiwei

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Lego has changed its policy around bulk sales, months after the company said it wouldn't fill an order placed by the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei

Ai wrote in a post on Instagram in October that Lego refused his bulk brick order because he was planning to use the materials for a political work of art.

On Tuesday, the Lego Group announced it will no longer ask people about the "thematic purpose" of their work when a customer places a large order of bricks. Instead, customers showing the works in public will have to include a disclosure, stating that Lego doesn't support or endorse the project being created Read more...

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