Recent litigation occurred in the Internet industry a lot. Only for Sohu's lawsuit, there is more influential in two: one a blog v. Sohu's copyright infringement; another is the 17 173 TKgame v. Sohu's website unfair competition case.
For the attitude of the two lawsuits, Sohu were initially taken an indifferent attitude. Now, Sohu will be in response to: blog infringement of basic end of reconciliation. The 17 173 case to settlement or final probably have ended without a conclusion.
Infringement occurring on the Internet, against what happened today, then it? Obviously not, from the day the Internet was born, tort, against things began to happen. Some ways that the growth of China's Internet history is a history of Internet infringement, numerous sites had both been violated, but also against one else.
Objectively, this reality has important value of promoting the development of the Internet is invaluable. If the early development of the Internet, the network of laws and regulations on protection of rights is very severe, then I am afraid of China's Internet industry will not achieve such prosperity would not be so beleaguered.
But in "Network Communication Ordinance" promulgated, people seem to solve the network further to see the hope of infringement. Sohu blog v. the results of the case, making news reprinted, quoted, when personal blog must be the copyright of the blog attention, and in after personal blog site reprinted the article seems to be right and proper thing. The TKgame v. 17173 and 17173 Sohu case because the behavior is a threat to TKgame core interests - most of the network business to the court is for this reason.
Sohu said that people have reason to respect its legal environment in the domestic network is very robust, had brought today. We must also realize that many sites also benefited from the successful development of the domestic network is not a sound legal environment and the weak sense of community activists.
Now, all this is changing, on the one hand, the domestic legal environment is improving the network for increasing the protection of innovation. On the other hand, the community, especially business users, and network Rights awareness is growing. This would mean, for many sites, the successful experience of the past may not be fulfilled today. This makes the last two years, the network showed the explosive growth of tort litigation characteristics.
And TKgame, like many Web companies are being hurt by the troubles that can not find the protection of innovation, methods of safeguarding their own interests, so forced to seek legal protection. In the current legal environment, the network company to take legal measures may be a lose-lose result, but it is also no way of approach. Otherwise, it not been in vain against the others go?