Copyright Union sues video website Tudou issued a statement in response

Sina Science and technology news on the evening of January 5, more than 80 copyright parties to form an anti-piracy alliance to prosecute Tudou, Tudou has just issued a statement, said that no relevant units have received written notice, and will retain the right to take further legal action.

This afternoon, the excitement net, Beijing Poly Bo na, Beijing Orange Day Entertainment, Beijing Jianyongia, Shanghai film Emperor, Shanghai Ban and so on nearly more than 80 copyright parties announced the joint establishment of "anti-Piracy Alliance", the Alliance said, will launch annual liquidation, Tudou and other video-sharing sites to prosecute.

According to the Anti-Piracy Alliance, members of the network introduced, since the end of last year, the excitement network has been found in the Potato homepage recommended video content, there is an exciting network to obtain exclusive copyright video content. This year, the network has brought potatoes to court, in November to reach an out-of-court settlement, Tudou compensation for the theft of film and the excitement caused by the economic loss of the network.

The network said the lawsuit is only the first case of potato infringement lawsuit, the next copyright union will sue its large number of infringing content, is currently in the forensics stage.

In a statement, Tudou said it had not received written notices from the network or related units, and said it was puzzled and puzzled by the threat of a legal action by the network and the apparent violation of the legal agreement between the two sides at the same time. (Han Ji)

The following is the full text of its declaration:

In response to the excitement of the January 5, 2009 release of the news has distorted the facts, the company's credibility of the network of false content, Tudou reserves the right to take further legal action. Up to now, Tudou has not received a written notice from an exciting network or related unit.

As the leading enterprise in the domestic video sharing industry, Tudou has always strictly complied with the regulations of the Law on the Protection of Information network dissemination rights, attaches great importance to protecting the legitimate interests of copyright owners, and devotes to the reasonable balance of copyright protection and the dissemination of works, stating as follows:

1. The "Safe haven" and "knowingly or otherwise known" Exceptions are provided for under the Regulations on the protection of the right to disseminate information network, seeking to strike a reasonable balance between the copyright holder, the disseminator and the user. Copyright as an intangible asset, even in the traditional field of its right to determine the attribution is very complex.

2, Tudou has always adhered to the "safe haven" principle of the requirements, through a better technical means to eliminate a large number of political, pornographic and infringing content upload. However, due to the limitations of technical means and the characteristics of Internet mass information content, any internet company in the world has no obligation or ability to determine the attribution of Internet copyright.

3, the face of a large amount of Internet information, through the manual review of each video in the economic clearly unreasonable is not industry practice. Even so, Tudou still invests a lot of manpower and material resources to develop the technology system independently, once receives the condition notice, the Tudou will carry on the manual deletion in the shortest time, and the technical mechanism prevents the same violation content again uploads. At present, Tudou received nearly 30,000 copyright notices, the actual deletion of the relevant works to notify the 24,000 article.

4, the Internet has increasingly become the main mode of dissemination of works, Tudou is willing to and appeal to all partners in the copyright ecosystem, together to find practical solutions to the construction of a reasonable and orderly copyright trading market. Tudou and exciting network in 2008 had reached legal benefits and confidentiality provisions of the lawsuit reconciliation, the excitement of the network threatened to take legal action at the same time clearly violated the two sides have reached a legal agreement, Tudou was puzzled and puzzled.