How to protect the copyright of online novels?

(1) Actively using criminal means In order to protect intellectual property rights, China not only stipulates the civil liability for infringing intellectual property rights, but also stipulates that infringing intellectual property rights will constitute a crime under certain circumstances. Nowadays, many websites put domain names and servers abroad for the convenience of infringement. If the civil liability of these websites is directly investigated, such as stopping the infringement or compensating for losses, the infringer is often not found when the civil lawsuit is initiated. But these infringers are in China, and they control websites in China to earn income. According to the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law and other laws, this crime is committed in China, and China judicial organs have jurisdiction. Judicial organs have more professional and stronger investigation means than ordinary people, and it is easier to find out the facts of the case and control the infringer (criminal suspect). After the infringer is investigated for criminal responsibility by judicial organs, he can be investigated for civil responsibility, which can be the first way for the right holder to consider. (2) authorize or transfer the network communication right in copyright to the literary novel website, and the literary website will defend the rights. Compared with individuals, literary websites will be more powerful as companies. Infringement will directly affect the income of websites, and literary websites also have enough motivation to protect their rights. Nowadays, large-scale literary websites generally have employees in charge of intellectual property rights, who have more professional knowledge than authors. (3) the way of collective entrustment. Collective entrustment, that is, several obligees entrust a law firm or lawyer to defend their rights. The main obstacles for rights holders to safeguard their rights are lack of professional knowledge and skills and limited time. They could have entrusted lawyers to defend their rights. But now the income of domestic online writers is not high, and the lawyer's fees of intellectual property lawyers are generally expensive. If a single writer entrusts a lawyer, the burden is often heavy. Several or a dozen or dozens of online writers can unite to entrust law firms or lawyers with rights protection. In this case, network writers can reduce costs, and lawyers can also solve problems such as work expenses. (four) timely transformation of intellectual property achievements. Generally speaking, the name of a novel does not enjoy a separate copyright because it is not original. Online novels and online games are very tolerant in user groups, and the fame gained by online novels is easily borrowed by online games. The superposition of some situations may constitute unfair competition, but if the author or obligee wants to better protect his rights, it is best to transform the intellectual property achievements as soon as possible. The copyright owner should register the title of the book as a trademark of online game goods or services in time to prevent others from using the name to develop game works, so as to lay a good foundation for the obligee to develop game works with the same name in the next step. Therefore, in order to prevent others from hitchhiking, it is very important to transform the intellectual property achievements related to trademarks and copyrights developed by online works in time. In China, the authors of related online novels found that their novels were infringed. It is necessary to collect the actual evidence of the relevant infringers and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the authors of relevant online works in China according to law. The relevant administrative departments of our country tried such people according to the relevant evidence of the case, which safeguarded the legal justice of our country.