Recently, after the hit movie "A Little Smile Is Allure", many girls with pink hearts have become obsessed with boys majoring in computer science. However, the male students from the law department were dissatisfied: In the movie, wasn't such a powerful "master" Xiao Nai still deceived? Moreover, the game they created was plagiarized, but in the end nothing happened, and they did not know how to protect their rights. How could this be embarrassing to the law?

So, what should you do if you encounter such an incident? Next, let legal professionals teach you how to protect your intellectual property rights.

Raise awareness of prevention

In the film, Xiao Nai and his classmates form a team to create games, discuss cooperation with a game company, and after showing all their creativity, the other party pretends to After discussion, they signed a cooperation agreement, but then they plagiarized their ideas and shamelessly claimed that Xiao Nai's team's ideas happened to be similar to their company's ideas.

In this regard, Najie Intellectual Property believes that when Xiao Nai’s team was discussing cooperation with the game company, they unpreparedly revealed all their ideas and ended up being plagiarized. This is an obvious manifestation of insufficient risk prevention.

There are many such examples in real life. For example, if you go to a crowdfunding platform to raise funds and publish business plans, creative plans, etc. on the platform, these will be plagiarized. If the other party has sufficient funds, it is likely to be the first to get involved. When you have a good business idea and are unable to patent it independently due to lack of technology and seek cooperation from others, you find that the other party rejects you while privately developing technology based on your idea; when you participate in a creative competition, when When you consult on projects, you may also encounter the problem of your ideas being used by others. Therefore, when encountering these situations, we need to first have sufficient awareness of risk prevention in order to avoid subsequent plagiarism incidents.

So, how do we protect creativity?

Register intellectual property rights

Najie Intellectual Property believes that when encountering such problems, many people should first think of the Intellectual Property Law. Before showing creativity to partners, they can First register your intellectual property rights. For games, computer software copyright registration can be done online. After registration, there will be an announcement of the copyright online.

Sign an agreement in advance

When the copyright owner negotiates with investors with his plans and works, in addition to obtaining legal protection through the registration of intellectual property rights, he can also obtain legal protection through In the form of an agreement, the idea is fixed in a specific written language and used as a trade secret to negotiate with the other party. It is clearly stipulated in the agreement that the core of the idea may not be used or distributed without the authorization of the right holder, otherwise the corresponding liability will be borne. Liability for tort. This way your rights can be protected to the maximum extent. If such an agreement has been signed in advance and the other party still plagiarizes the idea, the rights holder can require the other party to bear corresponding responsibilities according to the agreement. This way, there will be a clear evidence basis for safeguarding his rights.

Learn to collect evidence

Many times, when rights holders promote their works, they do not register intellectual property rights or sign agreements due to weak legal awareness. Just like Xiao Nai in the film, since no agreement was signed beforehand, their rights protection process would be much more complicated. This process requires Xiao Nai and the others to find evidence that they are the intellectual property right holders. So, how to prove that you are the right holder of intellectual property rights?

Najie Intellectual Property stated that intellectual property rights need to be reflected through certain carriers. Registration of intellectual property rights is most encouraged by law, but if it is not registered, it needs to be expressed in a form known to outsiders. For example, it can be presented in words, or embodied in a performance, or transformed into a physical object, or given a speech at a conference, or an agreement clearly stipulates the ownership and protection of intellectual property rights. Only through these entities showing that they are the rights holders of the intellectual property rights can the next step of rights protection be carried out. Therefore, when your intellectual property rights are infringed, you also need to collect the above evidence to safeguard your rights.

Source: Henan Legal News, subject to changes.

Editor: Xiaona@Najie Intellectual Property