Blizzard sued for using fonts
英语阅读是考研英语的重头戏，怎么复习?怎么训练?建议同学们采取英语朗读的方法每天练习10-20分钟，快速提升英语的阅读能力和听力水平！BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese IT companyFounder Electronics Co., Ltd. is suing California-based Blizzard Entertainmentfor 100 million yuan, claiming lost earnings from the unauthorized use of itsfonts.
A statement from Founder Electronics said five fontsfrom its database were used without authorization in the popular on-line fantasygame World of Warcraft (WoW), resulting in losses of one billion yuan.
Founder Electronics has launched the lawsuit againstBlizzard Entertainment, a unit of French media and telecoms company Vivendi, atthe Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court.
Founder Electronics is the largest provider ofChinese fonts in China, the statement said.
The font database was part of the company'sE-Publishing system, which was used by 90 percent of the international Chinesenewspaper industry, the statement said.
Observers said the damages sought by the Chinesecompany were among the largest ever for an intellectual property suit in China.
Shanghai-based IT company The9, which runs WoW inChina, refused to comment on the suit on Tuesday evening.
The monster-killing game, first launched in 2004, isone of the most popular on-line role-playing games involving multiple players.It was officially launched in China in June 2005.
WoW has 8.5 million players worldwide, including morethan 3.5 million in China.
Founder Electronics is a wholly-owned subsidiary ofFounder Group, which has 20,000 staff and five listed public companies on thesecurities exchanges of Shanghai, Shenzhen, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
China's courts have seen a nearly 50-percent annualincrease in the number of cases concerning intellectual property rights (IPR)violations involving foreign firms since the country joined the World TradeOrganization.
From 2002 to 2006, China's courts settled 931 civilcases of IPR violation at first instance trials with an annual increase of 48.3percent. In 2006, China's courts settled 353 civil cases of IPR violation atfirst instance trials, up 52.16 percent on the previous year, according theSupreme People's Court.
The Copyright Protection Center of China received23,095 applications for registration of computer software for copyrightprotection last year, a record high that demonstrated the growing awareness ofcopyright protection among Chinese, especially those working for the ITindustry. (One U.S. dollar equals 7.5845 yuan)
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