Research On Copyright Law Protection Of Online Game Rules

With the rapid development of the game industry and the continuous improvement of the level of game production,the object of online game rules has gradually entered the public view.As a collection of various mechanisms and Settings in online games,the rules of the game determine the decision points and operation space that players can carry out in the game,and affect the playability of the game.The game rules have become an important evaluation index of the quality of the game.However,in recent years,infringement of the rules of the game is common.Some game manufacturers in the name of copying,openly copy the rules of other games,with low development costs to make so-called "skin games." This behavior not only greatly harms the interests of the original game developers,but also does great harm to the healthy development of the game market.Obviously,the rules of the game,as the intellectual work of many game designers,have certain legal protection basis.In current judicial practice,online game rules are mainly protected by anti-unfair competition law and copyright law.The protection path of copyright law includes direct protection and indirect protection,which respectively target at the two different objects of rules and games.However,due to the ideological characteristics of the game rules,there are still many problems in the legal protection of the game rules.On the one hand,the current legal protection mode of online game rules is not clear,and there are no exact guidelines for the application of anti-unfair competition law and copyright law.On the other hand,the existing copyright protection path is not strong enough to protect the rules,and the traditional work type nature is difficult to cover the content of the rules.In addition,other works of tort judgment ideas and methods for the rule of this object is not applicable.These issues and controversies expose the lack of protection of the rules of the game in the current law.In this regard,we can start from the following points to improve the legal protection system of China's online game rules.Firstly,the copyright of the game rules should be recognized.The game rules meet the requirements of the three elements of the work,and the specific rules in the game rules have the basis for the protection of the copyright law.Secondly,the copyright protection of online game rules under the current legal framework should be given priority to with indirect protection,considering the different types of online games and other works can separate online game in the copyright law works of this type,and the rules of the game should be brought into the overall online game works copyright content,compared to the rules to protect this immediate protection rules exist more feasible.Finally,the idea and method of infringement judgment of online game rules can refer to and draw on the excellent experience of other countries,including identifying the specific expression of rules,grasping the substantive similarity of rules from the perspective of the game as a whole,and introducing the perspective evaluation of ordinary players as the reference of infringement judgment.This paper analyzes the current situation of legal protection of online game rules,deeply analyzes the existing problems,and puts forward some Suggestions for improvement,in order to provide some help for solving the infringement disputes related to online game rules.