Judgement for Online Games Live Infringement Case of Fantasy Westward Journey II: Huaduo Compensates NetEase 20 Million Yuan

2017/11/20

On November 13th, Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court made judgement of first instance about copyright infringement and unfair competition dispute case appealed by Guangzhou NetEase Computer System Co., Ltd. (NetEase). The court finally ruled that the defendant Guangzhou Huaduo Network Science Co., Ltd. (Huaduo) has infringed copyright of NetEase,  should stop propagating related game screens of electronic game Fantasy Westward Journey through network and compensate NetEase 20 million Yuan for economical loss and also rejected other appeals of NetEase. The case has been intensively concerned by IP field for 3 years. After announcement of first instance, it arouse hot discussion of infringement definition about network game live content in this industry again.