Chapter 45

Su Jinyu said, "manager, should we sue this company?"

Jia Peng also nodded: "yes, store manager, send lawyer's letter!"

Chen Mo shook his head. "It's no use."

Su Jinyu was shocked: "why? Don't rush to the conclusion, let's ask a lawyer. "

"It's hard to copy the rules of the game," Chen said. The best way to determine game plagiarism is two aspects: one is the similarity of art resources, the other is the similarity of text content of rule documents. If plagiarism can't be determined in both of these aspects, it's basically hard to protect rights. "

"So, even if you send them a lawyer's letter, they will probably throw it in the wastebasket."

Su Jinyu said with some diffidence, "however, the game is too much like" plant vs. zombie ", as long as it is visible to the eye!"

Chen Mo said calmly, "but this is not enough to convict them."

Su Jinyu is a little angry, but she can't refute.

In fact, after crossing the parallel world, Chen Mo has done some research on the game industry in the world for a long time, especially on "game plagiarism", and has also searched for several cases.

Similar to the previous world, there are two main aspects to determine game Plagiarism: one is art resources, music sound effects, text content, and the other is the basic rules of the game document, which is roughly equivalent to the source code of the previous world.

These two aspects are the best to be sure of plagiarism. As long as we get practical evidence, we should be sure to tell each other.

However, it is difficult to determine whether to plagiarize the most critical part of the "game play".

In the past, the famous table game "Three Kingdoms killing" once filed a lawsuit against "Three Kingdoms beheading", believing that "Three Kingdoms beheading" constitutes "plagiarizing other people's works".

But "Three Kingdoms" argues that the work done by game designers, including the determination of design direction, design framework and design details, belongs to the idea in the sense of copyright law and is not the object of copyright law protection.

In terms of the rules of the game, the whole design idea of "Three Kingdoms kill" is proposed in "Three Kingdoms chop", which also imitates the Italian card game "bang!" and tries to rake back.

Finally, the incident ended with a grand withdrawal.

There are many other examples in the past, the game industry's "reference" and "plagiarism" events are everywhere, except for individual cases with sufficient evidence, most of the "plagiarism" are not clear.

Of course, this is not all because the law is not perfect. One important reason is that the boundary between plagiarism and reference is very difficult to define.

Even the famous monument valley in the past has the suspicion of excessive reference (plagiarism) to infinite cloister.

Of course, the so-called "reference" is called "plagiarism", but the better one is "inheritance" or "homage".

It is the same in the parallel world. Although people's awareness of authenticity and anti plagiarism is much stronger, it is also easy to infringe, difficult to safeguard rights, long litigation time, difficult to prove, high time cost and money cost, which often leads to the litigant's income far lower than the cost.

Therefore, there are also some cases of "plagiarism" in the parallel world, which are ultimately dead.

Chen Mo roughly looked at the content of the game, art resources and music and sound effects, all of which were renovated, leaving no shadow of "plant vs. zombie".

In terms of the rules of the game, although it's similar to "Plants vs. Zombies", it's obvious that the designer rewrites the design documents from the beginning to the end, and specially makes changes in many aspects, consciously avoiding legal risks.

It can only be said that this flying limit entertainment is probably a recidivist. It's very clear where the boundary of the law is. It's a perfect sidekick.

Therefore, Chen Mo knows that if he goes to sue, although he is certainly one-sided in public opinion, he is basically unable to take advantage of anything.

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However, this does not mean that Chen Mo is at a loss, which has long been in his expectation.

Chen Mo downloaded the game, entered "the Moon Guard war", played two passes.

"Don't worry, the game won't work." Said Chen mo.

"Ah? Why? " Asked Su Jinyu.

Chen Mo hands her cell phone back to Su Jinyu: "you can play it yourself."

"No fire? Are you sure about the store manager? " Wenlingwei frowned.

Chang Xiuya also nodded: "yes, the store manager, the picture of the game is very good, and it's free."

Chen Mo said firmly, "I'm sure it won't burn."

Jia Peng hesitated for a moment and asked, "well, manager, do we still go to brush the comments?"

Chen Mo a smile: "all right, follow you."

Chen Mo finished, turned to the second floor.

"Shopkeeper, don't leave. You haven't told me why the game can't be played!" Said Su Jinyu.

Chen Mo turned around and said, "I have to plan a new game. As for why the game can't be popular, you are also a designer now. You should have some judgment."Chen Mo went upstairs.

Su Jinyu curled her mouth a little stiffly and began to play "the battle of the moon".

She is a little curious. Why is Chen Mo so adamant that "the battle for the moon" can't catch fire?

Others are curious.

Jia Peng doubts: "the store manager seems to be full of confidence. How does he know that the game will not be popular?"

"Maybe it's because of the score," said Wen. You see, everyone is resisting this game spontaneously. Even if it's free, how many people will play it? "

Another boy said: "I think it may be because of this way of charging. The store manager didn't use the way of advertising space to charge when he was doing "plant vs. zombie", so he must have his own consideration. "

Jia Peng hesitated and said, "then, shall we go to brush the comments..."

Wenlingwei said: "of course, come, let's go to brush with me for comment, and then unload after brushing!"

Su Jinyu thinks everyone has a point, but always thinks Chen Mo should have another reason.

Su Jinyu decided to play the moon defense.

First, the game guides the players to arrange the energy supply station in the moon base, and then install a mechanism turret to defeat the Zerg.

In the second level, new Zerg will appear and new defense facilities will be unlocked.

The third level is still to unlock new playing methods

Su Jinyu played the game one by one. When she reached the third level, she wanted to uninstall the game.

It's so similar to plant vs. zombie that Su Jinyu feels like she's playing two weeks of the adventure mode of plant vs. zombie. Many of the content that she's already tired of is still being guided to finish by a great deal.

"It's strange why the content of the game is similar to" plant vs. zombie "and the quality of the game is good, but I can't play at all..."

Su Jinyu couldn't help thinking.