There has been a copyright dispute between the Chinese company Moonton and Riot Games/Tencent for some time. Now Moonton accuses League of Legends of violating the copyright of their mobile game.
This is the dispute: Moonton and Riot have had several legal disputes over Mobile Legends: Bang Bang in the past.
Which games are you talking about exactly? Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is a MOBA from the Chinese developer studio Moonton and was released for mobile devices in 2016. In Mobile Legends: Bang Bang you play classic MOBA matches in 5 vs. 5. The focus is on teamwork and strategy, which is typical of the genre.
On the other hand, Riot Games has the world success League of Legends or League of Legends: Wild Rift. The latter is a shortened and mobile-friendly version of the popular PC offshoot and esports giant.
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What is the recent lawsuit about? After Riot Games and Tencent accused Mobile Legends: Bang Bang of violating the copyright of their own IP in the past, Moonton is now turning the tables.
As reported by the South China Morning Post, the Shanghai-based company claims Tencent is infringing on the copyrights of the authorship, reproduction and communication of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. Riot Games, developer of League of Legends, has been a subsidiary of Tencent since 2015.
The latest development that Moonton is now accusing Tencent of copyright infringement emerged from a timetable by the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court, according to the South China Morning Post.
The Shanghai court’s schedule says Tencent has had to defend itself against the allegations in court since Tuesday, November 29.
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What does the company behind TikTok have to do with this? The company behind the hit social media app TikTok is ByteDance, a Chinese internet technology company. It has been known since 2020 that ByteDance wants to do MMOs.
Then, in 2021, ByteDance bought Mobile Legends: Bang Bang developer Moonton for $4 billion.
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