App Store: Duty Free for Safe Harbor Principle in China?

By You Yunting

In March of 2012, 22 Chinese authors filed a lawsuit against Apple in Beijing No.2 Intermediate People’s Court and claimed  compensation of more than ten million. In the case, the plaintiffs stated that their works have been adapted into apps used on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, free of being charged at App Store. The case is the first lawsuit with the operator of App Store being the defendants, and will produce a prominent influence on the newly developed online store, which was launched in 2008 and with more than 360 million users . Now the litigation is under the spotlight, and this essay is focusing on the legal status of Apple and the defects in the process complaints of the store.

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Blizzard Suing against “WoW” Regredit and Chinese Law on Anti-Regredit

Highlights: Civil litigation as Blizzard uses this time is rarely adopted by Chinese game companies as a way to combat against game regredit. With the same logic as those game players who would rather choose regredit, those companies would rather choose another way, in their opinion, more convenient, quick, efficient and be once for all, for why they shall choose a more time and expense costing solution? Actually, Chinese game companies generally combat against the haunting regredit by directly reporting the cases to the police, charging the creators of regredit for crime of illegal business specified in the Criminal Law.

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