Research On The Copyrightable Of The Whole Picture Of Online Game

The online game is an online game of multi-player interactive entertainment through the Internet.At present,online games have become an important element in the emerging industry,and become an important way of people's life and entertainment.The online game can be said to be composed of two parts: computer software program and the whole picture.Synthesizing all kinds of network game related cases at present,most of the plagiarism games are related to the whole picture of the network game.Moreover,the quality of the overall picture and the overall design of the online game will affect the player's interest in the online game to a certain extent.So it is very important to study the copyright of the whole picture of online game.Because the whole picture of online games is composed of a series of works such as art,music,writing and so on,in judicial practice,most of the related infringement cases are tried by the relevant laws in the field of copyright.However,scholars have different opinions on its nature.If we want to use copyright law to protect it,we should first analyze the property of its works and judge whether it constitutes a "work".According to the analysis of relevant practice and theory,the whole picture of online games meets the requirements of originality and reproducibility stipulated in "works",so it can be used as copyright protection for works.Of course,scholars also have different views on what kind of works the overall picture of online games should be,but the art,writing,musical works and compilation works related to the overall picture of online games,Even audiovisual works are not the best belonging to the overall picture of online games.Moreover,there are some limitations on the copyright of the whole picture of the online game: the whole picture of the online game as a part of the online game,the original of the online game,The degree of cost input will affect the originality of the whole picture to a certain extent,and the judgment of the nature of the whole picture will also be influenced by whether the online game has the story plot or not.Throughout the outside of the overall picture of online games Copyrightable protection,many countries have admitted that the overall picture of online games can be independent of the game itself copyright protection.Although the United States will determine the form of protection according to the actual situation of the game,when it comes to the overall picture of online games,the United States basically regards it as "audio-visual works." Japan,on the other hand,tends to identify it as a film.Undeniably,the practice of these areas has certain enlightening significance to our country.In order to strengthen the Copyrightable protection of the whole picture of the online game,our country can make clear the nature of the whole picture of the network game in the legislation.Whether the overall picture of a game can be protected by copyright is not only in line with the requirements of "audio-visual works",but also requires a continuous dynamic picture and a certain storyline.And also has the copyright law stipulated the "originality" requirement.Therefore,it is necessary and feasible to protect the copyright of the whole picture of online games as a kind of film works.At present,there are some defects in the copyright protection of the whole picture of online games by the relevant copyright legislation in our country,so we can perfect the concrete judgment standard of the film works.At the same time,according to the factors such as whether the online game has the storyline or not,the original degree of the online game itself and the investment of the development cost,the whole picture of the online game is protected by classification in the judicial practice.