Source: Ecns.cn
Recently, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) has released the Top 10 Typical Internet Cases, which have indicated the increasing penalties on click farms, ID thefts, and fleeces, etc., Mr. Lin Guanghai, Presiding Judge of the Third Court of SPC said.
According to Mr. Lin, the Beijing Internet Court, the Hangzhou Internet Court and the Guangzhou Internet Court received a total of 217, 256 internet cases for first trials, and closed 208, 920, in which they received15,327 cases and closed 12, 792 in 2018, received 104,714 and closed 99,405 in 2019, received 97,215 and closed 96,723 in 2020. Moreover, other local courts also heard lots of internet cases.
With the increasing internet cases year by year, the SPC shall tackle the new challenges on complicated legal issues, said Mr. Lin. In order to encourage the innovations of digital economy, the courts have defined the protection scope of new type of IPR like data IP, and the standard for determining infringements.
The Top 10 Typical Cases were embodied with three features. Firstly, they covered a wide range of common IP infringements, unfair competitions, contract disputes and copyright infringements; secondly, they centered on the cutting-edge legal issues, including the Block chain evidence collections, the regulation of internet gray industrial chain, and the protection of online virtual assets; thirdly, they showed a clear judicial guidance on strengthening the regulation of internet justice.
As the cases indicated, the SPC seek to safeguard the internet economy to develop in a healthy and ordered way. For example, in Chang Wentao vs. Xuling and Ma Fenggang, the SPC held that the contract for the purpose of click farms was against the public order and good morals, and impaired the social public interests, thus the contract was declared as avoided. This case is conducive to build an internet order with good faith, purify the internet environment, and improve the internet governance capacity.
