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Blizzard gets sued again
Blizzard Entertainment is well versed in legal action with yet another attempt to sue their organisation. This time, a Chinese font supplier company, Beijing Founder Electronics Co Ltd has sued Blizzard due to theillegal exploitation of Founder's copyrighted fonts. The case is the latest in a series of lawsuits between Chinese and U.S companies. Beijing Founder Electronics Co Ltd is the largest font supplier company in China and a daughter company established by Founder Group. They have created hundreds of multi-language fonts which are widely used by Chinese people. According to Founder Group, Blizzard has illegally copied and used five of Founder's fonts in World of Warcraft game, and that this rip off has caused 1 billion yuan (97.7 million in euro) loss to Founder. "Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft has been illegally copying and using five fonts exclusively developed by Founder Electronics, without our permission, which is an infringement of our copyright," commented the spokeperson of Founder Group, Song Zhenying at ChinaDaily. This case may have repercussions to The9 Ltd who dedicates the rights to World of Warcraft game inside China. According to ChinaDaily, The9 has exclusively stated that they are discussing the case with their lawyers, but did not give any further comment regarding this issue. And not to mention that Blizzard was not available to give any matter-of-fact comment as well, which means we have to wait their official statement on this case.
ChinaDaily
By Antti 'drinn' Paasivaara
Aug 16, 2007 14:07
Blizzard Entertainment is well versed in legal action with yet another attempt to sue their organisation. This time, a Chinese font supplier company, Beijing Founder Electronics Co Ltd has sued Blizzard due to theillegal exploitation of Founder's copyrighted fonts. The case is the latest in a series of lawsuits between Chinese and U.S companies. Beijing Founder Electronics Co Ltd is the largest font supplier company in China and a daughter company established by Founder Group. They have created hundreds of multi-language fonts which are widely used by Chinese people. According to Founder Group, Blizzard has illegally copied and used five of Founder's fonts in World of Warcraft game, and that this rip off has caused 1 billion yuan (97.7 million in euro) loss to Founder. "Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft has been illegally copying and using five fonts exclusively developed by Founder Electronics, without our permission, which is an infringement of our copyright," commented the spokeperson of Founder Group, Song Zhenying at ChinaDaily. This case may have repercussions to The9 Ltd who dedicates the rights to World of Warcraft game inside China. According to ChinaDaily, The9 has exclusively stated that they are discussing the case with their lawyers, but did not give any further comment regarding this issue. And not to mention that Blizzard was not available to give any matter-of-fact comment as well, which means we have to wait their official statement on this case.
ChinaDaily
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Blizzard loses chump change, and the chinese font company go home with more than rice in their bowls.
Blizzard loses chump change, and the chinese font company go home with more than rice in their bowls.
Maybe the blizzard artists just drew them up and they just happened to look like the same letters, there's not exactly many ways you can write an A or a B with them staying readable to the world is there?
Blizzard loses chump change, and the chinese font company go home with more than rice in their bowls.
.. To pay the law that they have been broken!