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In December 2015, visitors to the Luminothérapie festival marvelled over the 30 see-saws in Place des Festivals that lit up and made music when in use.

But now, the award-winning art installation, titled Impulse, is at the centre of a legal dispute between the city agency that commissioned it and its creator.

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On Wednesday, Quebec Superior Court will hear a request for an interlocutory and permanent injunction by the Partenariat du Quartier des Spectacles against CS Design Inc., a small company owned by architect and lighting designer Conor Sampson.

The Quartier des spectacles, a non-profit organization that received $6.5 million in funding from the city this year to develop and promote the entertainment district, wants to prevent CS Design from creating new versions of its illuminated see-saws because it claims the exclusive right to market the teeter-totters internationally.