The world's first game themed entertainment park is Global Animation Joyland, in Changzhou, Jiangsu province. It cloned the American game producer Activision Blizzard's World of Warcraft (WoW) into "Terrain of Magic" and Activision Blizzard's StarCraft into "Universe of Starship" designs and made them into attractions. Adapting a copyrighted game into a real life park falls within the scope of the copyright protection of the work. It would be interesting to know if the park was discussed during the realisation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on intellectual property between the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos and the Jiangsu's Provincial People's Government of the People's Republic of China, see here. Watch the Game On Daily video below:
Showing posts with label World of Warcraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World of Warcraft. Show all posts
Friday, August 05, 2011
Friday, December 19, 2008
Judge For Yourself: Does Online Game Maker Miu! Infringe IPR?
Hau~ Omochikaeri~!, a blog by Micchi and Nemuiwanko about massively multiplayer online games, accuse that Miu! World plagiarise characters of Ragnarok Online, World of Warcraft, Maple Story and possibly other games in their online game Aurore Blade. The blog includes two changing pictures of the alleged original and alleged copycat characters.
"Finally, they [IGG, the company that made an English version of Miu! World's online game version] recently changed in the the class sprites and removed some of the monster sprites from the game, due to possible fear of future lawsuits from Gravity, Blizzard and other game makers. It is interesting to note, however, the Chinese version is still the original copycat version."
Read and see here.
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"Finally, they [IGG, the company that made an English version of Miu! World's online game version] recently changed in the the class sprites and removed some of the monster sprites from the game, due to possible fear of future lawsuits from Gravity, Blizzard and other game makers. It is interesting to note, however, the Chinese version is still the original copycat version."
Read and see here.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Founder Sues Blizzard Over Font Copyright Infringements
Xinhua news reported about California-based Blizzard Entertainment (owned by Vivendi, a French media and telecom company) being sued by Chinese font producer Founder Electronics at the Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court, because of alleged font copyright infringements in its massively multiplayer online (mmo) games World of Warcraft."A statement from Founder Electronics said five fonts from its database were used without authorization in the popular on-line fantasygame World of Warcraft (WoW), resulting in losses of one billion yuan."
Despite these alleged losses of one billion yuan, Founder Electronics claims 100 million yuan for lost earnings, because of non-authorised use of the fonts of Chinese characters.
Read the Xinhua article on the site of China.com in English here.
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