Copyright Dispute Over NBA Games Came To An End

Recently, the Beijing Higher People's Court has brought to an end a six-year copyright dispute involving the National Basketball Association (NBA) competition.

Seeing that Shanghai Zhongyuan Network Co., Ltd. and Beijing iQiyi Technology Co., Ltd. have played NBA on the PPS software and websites owned and operated by them without authorization. American NBA Properties Co., Ltd. sued the two companies to court, requesting the defendants to stop the copyright infringement and unfair competition and compensating 36 million yuan for economic losses.

After the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court made a first-instance judgment that the defendant constituted an infringement and jointly compensated 3.6 million yuan in economic losses, both parties refused to accept it and appealed separately.