Lately, Shanghai No.2 Intermediate People’s Court heard a lot of cases in which game websites were sued by animation copyright holders due to the dissemination of game works with well-known cartoon images. These cases present three new changes as followings. 

First, the litigators in such kind of cases were the copyright holders of game cartoon character images rather than the right holders of game works. 

Second, the litigation reason becomes that the free download game works contain copyrighted contents of right holders. In the past, the reason was that game websites duplicated or disseminated the whole game works without permission. 

Third, IPR right holders turned to bring lawsuits against medium and small game websites engaging in network publicity and promotion of the game works rather than Internet bars. [Chinese version is available on xinmin.cn]