Abstract:
Today, MiHoYo’s Legal Department issued a document stating that the recent case of MiHoYo suing GeX Company over copyright infringement and unfair competition disputes has been finally settled.
In the first instance, the court ordered the company involved to immediately stop the infringement and compensate MiHoYo for economic losses and reasonable expenses totaling 750,000 yuan. The judgment has now taken effect.
This case is the first unfair competition dispute involving AI voice counterfeiting in Shanghai.
The court determined that the character's voice was part of MiHoYo's influential commercial logo and was protected by the Anti-Unfair Competition Law. It provided judicial protection for the protection of the dubbing rights of game characters, which is of typical significance.Previously, MiHoYo's inspection found that the company involved developed software and extracted the voices of 63 game characters from "Genshin Impact" without authorization, making them into voice-changing resource packs and selling them at unit prices of 19 to 59 yuan.
There is a special area in the software that provides character voice auditions, with Genshin Impact character avatars and nicknames to attract traffic. The relevant voice packs have been used up to 1.92 million times.
In addition, the company operates social accounts, uses "Genshin Impact" character images, audio and video materials to promote software, and expands monetization channels. The entire set of actions was not authorized by miHoYo and seriously misled consumers.
The above-mentioned actions were not authorized by MiHoYo. They improperly captured high amounts of traffic and also obtained huge profits, causing serious economic losses to MiHoYo. MiHoYo immediately filed a copyright infringement and unfair competition lawsuit with the court in accordance with the law.
The court's first-instance judgment showed that the software involved in the case immediately stopped the copyright infringement and unfair competition involved in the case and compensated MiHoYo for economic losses and reasonable expenses totaling RMB 750,000.
After the second instance, both parties reached an agreement and the company involved voluntarily withdrew the appeal, and the first instance judgment officially came into effect.
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