Talk:General Discussion/@comment-25284966-20140917025424/@comment-24403956-20140917140829

^ the game you mentioned "poamei', the artists can sue that game individually, because that game is using their art without permission. However, as for that game, the gameplay does actually vary from kancolle, it is more like a you roll a fice and advance forward and fight some random monster, and get some random prize, the game does not have the map like kancolle. so a lawsuit would be at some specific mechanism of the game. However, as I mention law is enforece by the state. If Kadokawa has no presence in China, a lawsuit will likely to be unsuccessful. And due to the ignorance of mainlander(thanks to the great fire wall), it is hardly that the mainlander will know the popularity of kancolle, so the Jury(in china) will unlikely to found those copied game breaching the copyright act (assuming the jury know what is a copyright act..... oh chinese, you so silly)

if you search the jordan lawsuit case against a chinese sport company. It will provide a good example. In summary, The arguements put forward by the chinese "jordan' company is minor, and the trademark and name they use does not pass the bystander test(the court does even bother to conduct this test). and the logo and roduct the chinese company closely resemble Michael Jordan and Nike, however chinese being chinese, the court ignore the fundamental meaning of trademark. It would be OK if that sport company is in the country, Jordan, or the owner of the company is called Jordan. However, they still cannot use the jumpman logo, as Nike has trademark that worldwide. ALso, it would be ok if it is not a sport company, if tht chinese company is making phone, then they are allow to use the name, as it will not associate with the sport star: michael Jordan.