The Copyright Protection Theory Of Mobile Games

With the advent of the Internet, entertainment fragmentation trend is obvious under the fast-paced life. At the same time, with the rapid development of Smartphone industry and a series of mobile network performance such as 4G、Wi-Fi and wireless network, mobile games become a new profit growth point of mobile Internet, which has been widely attention and hot. Under the environment of explosive growth of mobile games, developers expand brutally in the blue ocean of "national games", especially the small developers. In order to quickly enter the market and to attract capital, "shanzhai" has become the small developers’ shortcut of profit and the copyright infringement events are continued in mobile game market. Faced with the chaos phenomenon of domestic mobile game industry, developers sights on copyright of mobile games. In order to protect the healthy development of the mobile game industry, the copyright protection of mobile games have become a hot problem.The development of mobile games reached new levels, while mobile game intellectual protection of property rights is relatively lag. Although some developers substantially invest in mobile games copyright issues, the current mobile game market is still a lack of a sound legal system to regulate. In addition, the mobile games industry lacks effective self-regulatory mechanism to control chaos phenomenon. Combined with the current reality, exploring the copyright protection way of mobile game is imperative.In this paper, starting from the mobile games itself, the first part gave basic overview of the mobile games, which makes a preliminary understanding on the whole mobile game industry. As a new type of work, the qualitative analysis of mobile games remains a big dilemma, so the article further analyzed the copyright of mobile games. As for the character of mobile game works, made a comparative study between the mobile games and computer software, video works, multimedia works, art works, than analyzed which type of works the mobile games should belong to. In addition, based on the phenomenon,current prevalence of "shanzhai" and serious homogeneity, the article wrote about the cognizance of mobile games infringement. At last, through the study how to protect mobile games in the developed countries, such as the United States, Japan and South Korea, the writer learn from foreign advanced experience and improve the theory and system of China’s mobile games on copyright protection. From the whole article, it not only provides an idea for us on researching the property rights of mobile games, but also puts forward some useful suggestions on copyright protection of that, which promote the sustainable development of the mobile game industry in China.