Game Developers Conference was run by counterfeit GDC to bring suit to Shanghai court

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords Lawsuits game developers court mentions organizers
The industry-renowned Game Developers Conference (Game Developers Conference, or GDC) is also a copycat? Recently, GDC owner United BUSINESS MEDIA (UBM) told the Shanghai Business newspaper that they had formally filed a lawsuit against the Shanghai court to sue China GDC (CGDC), the organizer of the Chinese Publishers Association Game Publications Committee ("Game work")  and cgdc actual operator Beijing Han Prestige Heng Exhibition Co., Ltd. unfair competition and false propaganda, demanding that it immediately stop its illegal activities, public apology, eliminate the impact and compensation for the corresponding economic losses. GDC is UBM's 23-year history of well-known professional exhibition, is the world's largest gaming industry, the most authoritative technology event. Each year in Europe and the United States, Asian countries to host a number of cities. Its positioning is clear, is a game-oriented online games, home games, mobile games and other types of game developers professional meetings.  2009 GDC Global Series of activities have 5 stations, respectively, GDC San Francisco, GDC Canada, GDC Europe, GDC Austin and the Last Stop GDC China (that is, "GDC Chinese 2009"). GDC will also be held in Shanghai every year, but this year's investment time has encountered unprecedented difficulties. A number of participants said that a similar CGDC would be held in the near future, and the participants were at a loss in the face of two similar events.  In this regard, the GDC organizers are very angry, they believe that CGDC's related behavior is an unfair competition behavior. UBM to the commercial newspaper reporter said, hoped that through this to take up the legal weapon, besides indicated firmly defends own legitimate rights and interests the determination, is also establishes a positive example for the profession, thus causes the whole society the attention, for constructs the reasonable fair market environment, defends the proper competition order and the joint effort.
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