Recently, Tencent's "League of Legends" developer Fist Games sued Shanghai game company Mu Hitomi Technology, accusing Mu Hitomi Technology's "Mobile Legends: Bang Bang", of plagiarizing the content and promotional materials of the "League of Legends" series.
At present, "Endless Showdown" has been downloaded more than 500 million times on Android. "The game also uses the extensive, expressive content that Fist Games has produced in League of Legends Mobile Games, as well as trailers, promotional materials and other content to compete with League of Legends Mobile Games," Fist Games said. This kind of behavior infringes our copyright. ”
In September last year, the "League of Legends Mobile Game" national service opened an unlimited number, no deletion test, the game since the launch, by many end game veteran players attention, coupled with the official promotion and game benefits, attracted countless new players to try the experience.
Founded by former Tencent employees, Shanghai Mu Hitomi Technology Co., Ltd. was acquired by ByteDance last year for nearly $4 billion.
Fist said that Mu Hitomi Technology began to copy "League of Legends" at least in 2015, and they carried out a "deliberate and continuous copy", it should be noted that Fist once sued the company in 2018, accusing the company's "Endless Showdown" of plagiarizing "League of Legends". Similarities include the user interface and character design, as well as plagiarism of Red Dead Redemption promotional materials, including trailers and co-branded Nike sneakers.