On The Copyright Protection Of Online Game

With the development and improvement of China’s Internet infrastructure, the Internet economy has been developed rapidly, and some problems also exposed gradually. Online games, as the new product with the development of Internet economy, has been developing for almost 20 years and obtained certain achievements. With the development of the online game industry, legal disputes in the field of online games increase day by day, including a large number of online games copyright infringement disputes. However, the matched system of legal protection is not perfect. So it is extremely urgent to perfect the legal protection measures in the field of online games.This paper is mainly divided into six parts. The first chapter makes a brief introduction to the related concepts of online games, including the concept, classification characteristics and content of the online game, and expounds the necessity of the research about the protection of the online game copyright.The second chapter mainly introduces the present situation of the copyright protection of online games at home and abroad, in order to get some background knowledge of the current situation of the online game copyright protection.The third chapter mainly introduces the meaning of “works” in theory and the feasibility of the legal protection of online games as “works” in the sense of Copyright Law.The fourth chapter briefly analyzes the similarity of the online game and the “works” in Copyright Law, and expounds the possibility and the condition of regarding the online game as the cinematographic works to protect its copyright under the current framework of Copyright Law.The fifth chapter puts forward a little advice to the copyright protection of the online game in China from different angles, hoping to provide some help to promote the copyright protection of the online game in China.The last part is an epilogue, it is a summary of the full text. This paper puts forward some superficial views of online games’ copyright protection in China and thinks the online game can be protected by Copyright Law as a cinematographic works under certain circumstances. The last part is a generalization of all these views and opinions.