The renowned legal media outlet, China Business Law Journal, announced the winners of the "Deals of the Year 2022" awards. The case of a dispute over information network dissemination rights, represented by Chang Tsi & Partners, as a representative case in the category of intellectual property disputes and investigations for the year 2022.
As a top-tier legal journal in Asia, China Business Law Journal conducts comprehensive research and analysis of the Chinese market each year, providing precise commercial legal references to enterprises worldwide. The "Deals of the Year" is a prestigious annual award, with the editorial team selecting the most significant transactions and cases of 2022 based on a combination of factors. The importance, complexity, innovation, and scale of each project are all taken into account during the selection process, which is widely recognized in the industry.
This case involved the domain name and website services industry, where the failure of the website's hosting organization to timely cancel the ICP filing led to the domain name being re-registered by another party upon expiration, who then used the website to commit infringement. This sparked a new type of dispute over the information network dissemination rights of works.
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