Discussion On The Protection Of Electronic Games

The Video Gameindustry has a history of more than twenty years in China.With the development of cultural industry and the improvement of the Internet technology,Video game has become a common mean of leisure and entertainment in China,which is now the largest “Game Kingdom” in the world.The video game industry enters into a mature stage and plays an important role in China's cultural industry.The prosperity and development of the video game industry has caused intense market competition and more intellectual property rights disputes,most about copright of the game.The solution of these disputes will contribute to the healthy development and prosperityof the video game industry in China.Under such circumstance,the study of copyright protection of the video game has both theoretical and practical significance.The article focuses on the copyright infringement issues about video game and tries to find the proper solution in copyright law regime.This paper is divided into five parts:The first part briefly introduces the character of video game,including its feature,constitution and content,as well as the development of the video game industry in China.Then this part gives a description of legal attribute ofvideo game and discusses different legal means to protect video game.The second part aims at elements that might need copyright protection of video game,such as the tile,interface,background story,rule-setting and game process,etc.,also this part will consider how to protect these elements from the perspective of copyright Law.The third part analyses three influential copyright infringement lawsuits about video game,e,g,the “Crazy Arcade” case,the “Legends of Three Kingdoms” case,and the “MU” case.The author of this paper will argue the necessity of protecting these elements according to copyright law.The forth part systematically reviews the method and criteria of ting copyright infringement and analyses the method and standard in certain the video game tort suits.The fifth part sums up points of this article.This article studies the copyright protection of video gamefrom both theoretical and practical perspectives.By analyzing the infringement claims and disputes of several famous lawsuits,the author of this paper brings up own points on how to explore proper legal means of copyright protecting video game,which guarantees the continual prosperity and stable development of the video game industry in China.