{"id":2124,"date":"2007-08-15T20:33:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T03:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=2124"},"modified":"2012-12-17T22:35:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T06:35:38","slug":"blizzard-sued-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/blizzard-sued-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Sued In China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2125\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Blizzard.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"241\" \/>AUG. 15, 2007 <em>\u2022<\/em> Blizzard Entertainment is being sued in the Beijing High People&#8217;s Court by Founder Electronics Co Ltd. The latter alleges that Blizzard is infringing on its copyrighted fonts. Founder is China largest font supplier with hundreds of multi-language fonts widely used in that market. Blizzard is being accused of illegal copying and use of five of Founder&#8217;s fonts without permission. Compensation in the amount of 100 million yuan ($13.3 million) is sought.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: With success comes attention. China has been bashed for so long for lax intellectual property protections, that it was only a matter of time before some western company would find itself the subject of a tit-for-tat response. World of Warcraft&#8217;s huge popularity in China made Blizzard a ripe target for scrutiny whether it is found guilty of infringement or not.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUG. 15, 2007 \u2022 Blizzard Entertainment is being sued in the Beijing High People&#8217;s Court by Founder Electronics Co Ltd. The latter alleges that Blizzard is infringing on its copyrighted fonts. Founder is China largest font supplier with hundreds of multi-language fonts widely used in that market. Blizzard is being accused of illegal copying and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}