Copyright

South Korean cult videogame creator loses lawsuit against its exclusive Chinese licensee

China’s Supreme People’s Court on December 24 upheld the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court’s ruling that the renewed software license agreement on the cult videogame title the Legend of Mir 2 signed between China’s Zhejiang Century Huatong Group Co., Ltd.’s two subsidiary comp

CNSA's new rule to deal heavy blow to China's short-form video market

​The China Netcasting Services Association (CNSA) on December 15 published the 2021 amendment of the the Censoring Criteria for Online Short-Form Video (《网络短视频内容审核标准细则》).

Mituo wins copyright lawsuit requiring attribution for free software

China’s Supreme People’s Court on November 15 ruled on a computer software dispute that the Henan Construction Association stop the copyright infringement,

Chinese publisher wins $1.87 mln damages from Apple Inc.

China’s Binhai New Area People’s Court of Tianjin Municipality on November 1 ruled in favor of Chinese digital publisher Chinese Online (Tianjin) Cultural Development Co., Ltd. in a copyright lawsuit against U.S. tech group Apple Inc.

China releases 2020 report on digital copyright protection

On June 1, the National Copyright Administration of the People’s Republic of China (NCAC) released its annual report on the adequacy and effectiveness of the country’s protection and enforcement of digital copyright.