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Comics platform liable for providing content inappropriate for minors
2022-06-21
In December 2020, the parents of Xiao Xue, a middle school student, found out to their surprise that she had deposited money to an online comic reading platform from May 25, 2019 to Dec 22, 2020 to a total of 1,466 yuan ($219).
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Case trial clarifies online chat group administrators’ scope of authority
2022-05-30
As people are nowadays more active in cyberspace, chat groups have become a necessary means of communication and more and more disputes related to the authority of chat group administrators have arisen.
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Plagiarizing webpage design may constitute infringement
2022-05-30
The Beijing Internet Court (BIC) recently trialed a case on plagiarizing the page design of a website.
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BIC case included in 2021 top 10 IPR cases heard by Beijing courts
2022-05-06
The top 10 intellectual property right (IPR) cases trialed by courts in Beijing in 2021 were recently released.
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BIC case included in SPC’s typical civil cases on personality rights protection
2022-04-18
To better guide courts nationwide to correctly apply the provisions concerning personality rights in the Civil Code which took effect on Jan 1, 2021, the Supreme People's Court recently released nine typical civil cases on personality rights protection.
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'Letters Alive' copyright infringement case
2022-03-23
A letter to Sanmao (also known as Echo Chen Mao-ping), a late Chinese writer based in Taiwan province, from her father was exposed in a season two episode of the TV show Letters Alive. Sanmao's siblings sued the TV show in the Beijing Internet Court (BIC), alleging copyright infringement of a written work.
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BIC judgment rejects claims from online gamer suing game companies
2022-03-23
A plaintiff surnamed Ma was an online game veteran. In April 2021, company X, the domestic agent of the game he had been playing, banned his game account permanently with no compensation on the grounds of his having used an illegal script.
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MissFresh app tweeting promotional messages case
2022-03-23
Wang received the promotional short messages after registering on MissFresh, a fresh food shopping app. In an attempt to cancel such short message service, she paid 0.1 yuan ($ 0.016) as a cancellation fee according to the app's instructions.