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Chinese company sues Blizzard over copyright issue |
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Written by Felix Da Silva (fdasilva@bitnip.com)
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Wednesday, 15 August 2007 |
 Beijing Founder Electronics said yesterday it
has sued US game company Blizzard Entertainment, creator of World of Warcraft, over alleged copyright
infringement of its fonts. This lawsuit came at a time when Chinese companies
and US firms' dispute over intellectual property rights
protection is intensifying.
Founder Electronics is asking for compensation of 100 million yuan for the
alleged infringement - the largest amount claimed by a Chinese company in a
copyright case. Founder claims it has suffered a loss of 1 billion yuan.
They allege that its fonts were illegally used in Blizzard's popular online game World
of Warcraft.
Song Zhenying, a spokesperson
for Founder Group said,
Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft has been illegally copying and using
five fonts exclusively developed by Founder Electronics, without our permission,
which is an infringement of our copyright.
With the fairly recent and public complaint by the US to the WTO about how China is not doing enough to protect intellectual property rights, China is certainly showing them how they're protecting their intellectual property rights.
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