Resreach On The Work At Tributes Of Online Games

In China, the determination of online game's property is a difficult problem in series cases of copyright infringement. In some cases, the elements of online games are copied or generated other copyright infringement problems; as a result, how to deal with the properties of these elements has to be solved in the reality. This paper focuses on classifying different online games from the angle of the design and development to the various types of elements of games with abstract analysis. The research will be summarized and classified in further with the result of that online games may have some general factors, and then process the theory analysis to estimate these general factors belong to the ideology or expression. Afterwards, explain the reason why these general factors belong to elements of expression and elaborate the originality of the elements. This thesis is divided into four parts: The first part analyzes two cases, and find out the questions during judicial practice; The second part introduces the online games' status and types of copyright infringement, and then discuss the different views of online games'copyright infringement; The third part is the main part of this thesis, first analyzes the categories of online game, then explores the classification of different elements, sums up the general elements of online games, and then combines these elements and the basic theory of copyright law,classifies thought and expression, after summarizing the elements to original standard research, evaluates the second part; The fourth part is through the analysis of the work properties of online games, gives three suggestions to solve the copyright tort above; The fifth part gives a conclusion.In conclusion, online games can be protected by the copyright law as an integral whole in the cases which involving the whole copyright infringement of online games. The single element of online games can also be protected as a sense of individual production when the cases relate to the tort of online games' elements.