However, while it has achieved great success at the box office and in business, Wolf Warriors 2 has also fallen into an intellectual property dispute. Although the box office goes straight to 5 billion, the cost of intellectual property disputes is getting higher and higher, and trademark rights are not guaranteed for a long time. I have to say that it is indeed a worrying thing.
Wolf Warriors 2 was caught in an intellectual property dispute.
With the popularity of Wolf Warriors 2, Wolf Warriors has become a super IP, attracting attention from all sides. However, incidents such as being sued by former investors and blocked trademark registration have also brought intellectual property disputes into public view.
Anyone who has seen Wolf Warrior and Wolf Warrior 2 knows that Wolf Warrior 2 was formed by recreating the story clues and character relationships on the basis of the story ending and character relationships in Wolf Warrior 2.
Wolf Warriors was shot by the Television Art Center of the Political Department of Nanjing Military Region and the former Chunqiu Dengfeng International. The three parties have agreed in the agreement that the name right of Wolf Warriors belongs to Dengfeng International (a subsidiary of Jason Wu), and Wuhan Legend is a secondary investor introduced later, only enjoying the right of signature and investment income of Wolf Warriors, and has no right to interfere in the filming of subsequent films of Wolf Warriors and Wolf Warriors.
Wuhan Legend Company, one of the investors of Wolf Warriors, believes that Dengfeng International, one of the producers of Wolf Warriors 2, adapted and filmed Wolf Warriors's business card without obtaining the right to edit and use it, which is an infringement. Bring a lawsuit against Beijing Dengfeng International Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., demanding compensation of 6.5438+million yuan. At the same time, Lenovo asked the court to ban Wolf Warriors 2.
The plaintiff claimed that the defendant "kicked off the bridge", and the defendant firmly denied the infringement. Dengfeng Company claims that it has never signed any agreement with Lenovo and never transferred the film copyright to it. The copyright of the film Wolf Warriors shall be exclusively enjoyed by Dengfeng Company.
The Haidian District People's Court in Beijing has accepted the case and the case is still being processed.
Jason Wu's awareness of rights protection is strong, but it is hard to prevent.
After consulting the information, I found that Jason Wu is actually a person with strong intellectual property awareness.
Since 20 14, Jason Wu has successively applied for trademark copyright related to Wolf Warriors. The application recorded a number of iconic patterns and figures, including the logo of Wolf Warriors, Jason Wu's signature and the team emblem of Wolf Warriors Squadron. * * * applied for 14 copyrights and 57 trademarks. However, at present, the process of applying for trademarks has been hindered, and some trademarks are still under review. Among them, Wolf Warriors's Chinese trademark application was repeatedly rejected, which laid a hidden danger for its future commercial development of derivatives.
Wolf warrior 20 15 will be released in April. As early as July 20 14, Jason Wu registered the work Wolf Warrior Squadron Armband as the copyright owner.
2065438+July and August, 2005, the written works of Wolf Warriors Warriors 2 and War Wolf 3 Doomsday Slaughterhouse have been registered (suspected scripts);
In the past three years, Jason Wu has successively registered 14 written works and works of art, including film and television derivatives, mainly works of art such as Wings of the Wolf Warrior, Wings of the Wolf Warrior, Shield of the Wolf Warrior, Watch of the Wolf Warrior, Wolf's Head of the Wolf Warrior and Hanging of the Spike's Teeth.
Beijing Dengfeng International Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. has no natural person shareholder, and the only shareholder holding 90% of the shares is natural person Jason Wu, so Jason Wu is the actual controller: Beijing Dengfeng International Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. applied for registration of the trademark "Wolf Warrior of Special Forces" in May 2065438+2004. The application categories are: 35, 38, 4 1, 42, etc. However, the trademark was not registered successfully.
Beijing Dengfeng International Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. also applied for registration of the trademark "Wolf Warrior" in May 20 16. I applied for more than one category, but I was rejected.
In addition, various derivatives of Wolf Warriors also have certain market value. Even Jason Wu's autograph was imitated by fans and applied for trademark registration.
In a word, it is not easy for Jason Wu to make a good-looking film for the audience, and it is not easy to protect the intellectual property rights behind the success of the Wolf Warriors series.
Strengthening the layout of intellectual property rights and the awareness of safeguarding rights, and completing the patent application and property rights layout in advance are the problems that film and television companies need to pay attention to, so as to avoid the opportunity coming, IP explosion, soaring box office, and fat water flowing to outsiders.