HowNet was sentenced to pay Chaoxing more than 100,000 yuan for infringement

IT House news on May 6, recently, Beijing Century Chaoxing Information Technology Development Co., Ltd. and “China Academic Journal (CD Edition)” Electronic Magazine Co., Ltd. (the operator of “China Knowledge Network”) copyright ownership, infringement Multiple trial documents for disputes are made public.

The document shows that the plaintiff, Century Chaoxing Company, claimed that, according to the authorization letter, the plaintiff had the right to disseminate information on the works of the authors Wang and Zhang, and the “Mobile Knowledge Network” operated by the defendant provided the above-mentioned articles for paid online reading without permission. , Paid download service. His actions seriously violated the rights and interests of the plaintiff and caused serious economic losses to the plaintiff.

The defendant Academic Journal Company argued that: the authorization letter submitted by Century Chaoxing Company was signed later than the publication time of some works, and that the Academic Journal Company had carried out electronic publishing of academic journals in response to policy needs since the end of the 20th century, and obtained authorization before Century Chaoxing Company; The article involved in the case was published by the author in a relevant journal, and belongs to the content of the journal, and the academic journal company has obtained the authorization of the journal.

The court held that: the evidence submitted by the academic journal company was insufficient to prove that it had previously obtained the right to disseminate the information of the work involved or other legal authorization to use the work involved; the academic journal company included the articles involved and provided download services, which did not belong to the journal and the The act of reprinting or excerpting between journals lacks factual and legal basis for defending the legal license of the journals.

In the end, the court ruled that Academic Journal Company should compensate Century Chaoxing Company for economic losses and rights protection expenses totaling more than 100,000 yuan.

It is worth mentioning that Century Chaoxing has sued academic journal companies many times before and won, mostly for copyright ownership and infringement disputes.

IT House reminds that the following are screenshots of some referee documents:

Recently, Tongfang Co., Ltd. announced its 2021 financial report. According to the financial report, the annual revenue of Tongfangzhi.com was 1.289 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9%; the net profit attributable to the parent was 194 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.3%;The gross profit margin was 53.35%, and the total assets were RMB 2.755 billion.

It is worth mentioning that in a previous live trial, the agent ad litem of “China Academic Journals (CD-ROM)” Electronic Magazine Co., Ltd. (the operator of “China Knowledge Network”) admitted frankly, If the standard compensation of Professor Zhao Dexin from the University of Economics and Law is 200 yuan per thousand words, CNKI’s works in the library will be compensated for about 120 billion yuan.

After the recent Internet rumors that “Chinese Academy of Sciences has suspended CNKI” caused heated discussions, Zhao Dexin, a professor who was hotly searched for rights protection last year, spoke again today.

Professor Zhao Dexin has been engaged in the study of Chinese economic history for a long time, and many papers have been published in “Research on Chinese Economic History” before. According to reports, CNKI not only included these papers by Zhao Dexin, but he also had to pay when he downloaded them himself.

In August last year, Professor Zhao Dexin filed a complaint against Zhiwang in court. finally,Zhao Dexin wins the lawsuit and wins compensation of 700,000 yuanCNKI stated that “his articles are no longer included, and all those that have been included are also removed from the shelves.”

Although she won the case, Zhao Dexin found herself trapped in a “weird circle”: winning the lawsuit means winning the lawsuit, but after winning the lawsuit, the work loses the channel for dissemination. Zhao Dexin said in an interview on December 16 last year that in the process of entrusting a lawyer to continue to defend her rights, “Request HowNet to restore deleted articles” will be one of the important demands.

“HowNet: If the compensation is based on the standard of 200 yuan/thousand words, the amount of compensation for works in the library will exceed 120 billion yuan”