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Tencent sued Tuyou for plagiarism and was compensated 560,000 yuan. Why is game copyright so important?

Game copyright belongs to intellectual property rights. Once the copyright is found to be illegally plagiarized, reprinted, played, etc., it is strong evidence for making a claim. There is no need to waste time in collecting other evidence. All videos played by online video operators need to be authorized by the copyright owner, otherwise it will constitute infringement. Intellectual property rights are the exclusive rights regarding the fruits of intellectual labor created by human beings in social practice. With the development of science and technology, in order to better protect the interests of property owners, the intellectual property system has emerged and is constantly being improved. Nowadays, there are more and more infringements of intellectual property rights such as patent rights, copyrights, and trademark rights.

Tianyancha App shows that on February 1, the first-instance civil judgment on the unfair competition dispute between Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. and Online Tuyou (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. was announced, with the case number (2019) Beijing No. 0105 Minchu No. 73675, the trial court is the People's Court of Chaoyang District, Beijing, the plaintiff is Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd. and Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., and the defendant is Online Tuyou (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.

The judgment shows that Tencent Computer Systems Co., Ltd. and Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. claimed that Tuyou Company infringed and plagiarized Tencent Company through its "Tuyou Landlord" game published on the WeChat mini-game platform. The endgame level card design of the "Happy Landlord" game released on the WeChat mini game platform. Tuyou Company's "Tuyou Landlord" initially set up 40 endgame levels. The plagiarism method was to copy them exactly, except that the order of consecutive levels was changed to reverse order. The cards involved in the two games There is almost no difference in appearance, interface, and visual effects.

In the end, the verdict of this case is that Online Tuyou (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. shall compensate Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Co., Ltd. and Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. for economic losses within 10 days from the date of this judgment taking effect. ***Total 565,610 yuan, etc.