Danish court orders car dealer to compensate Chinese artist Ai Weiwei

FILE PHOTO: Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei's installation made of more than 3,500 life jackets from refugees who landed on the Greek island of Lesbos is seen on the Kunsthal Charlottenborg building in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 20, 2017. Ritzau Scanpix/Ida Marie Odgaard via REUTERS

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was awarded 1.75 million Danish crowns ($262,952) compensation by a Danish court on Wednesday after a Danish car dealer used one of his works commemorating thousands of refugees as a backdrop for a commercial.

Car dealer Skandinavisk Motor Co., an importer of Volkswagen cars in Denmark, used Ai's art work in a magazine commercial published more than 200,000 times, the district court said.