The deadline for M2L’s Genuine Design Competition has been extended to Monday, March 15.

Open to design students across the country, the competition calls on participants to create a video — up to four minutes long — in the form of a Public Service Announcement on the topic of genuine design and why furniture designers deserve the right to protect their work against unauthorized copies and counterfeits.

M2L will award $8,500 in scholarships to four chosen finalists and honor the winners at an event at M2L’s NYC showroom this spring. The winning videos will also be displayed in M2L’s showrooms in New York, DC and Boston and posted on the Genuine Design website.