Caixin Media v. Phoenix reprint their own articles, double hair to reach a settlement

Because that Phoenix reproduced their own article infringement, Caixin Media Co., Ltd. (hereinafter called Caixin) will Phoenix Beijing days surplus Kyushu Network Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Phoenix) to the Haidian court, the demand for Phoenix compensation related losses of more than 16,000 yuan. Yesterday afternoon, the two sides reached a settlement.

Yesterday afternoon, Haidian court hearing the case. Caixin claims, December 2014, its discovery Phoenix reproduced the "Internet financial supervision and regulation of the Division of Labor Peer-to-peer will be responsible for the Banking Regulatory Commission" "Bank Counter War balance Treasure" and other 11 articles, these articles are the wealth of the new copyright, to Phoenix issued notice to stop reprint, Phoenix also did not reason. In accordance with the calculation of 500 yuan per thousand words, plus legal fees, notary fees, and so on, so sue the court decree Phoenix compensation for its related losses of more than 16,000 yuan, and public apology.

In this respect, the Phoenix agent argues that Phoenix reproduced these works, transferred from the third party, and most of the current news, the original content is less, the text news should not be protected, this is the usual practice in the industry, and the editors have the right to sign, the work involved does not conform to the requirements of the legal person's works, and the work involved has been offline, Phoenix

The new financial agent argues that the prevailing practice in the industry is not law. Because they have signed a labor contract with the editors, these works are job titles, units and editors have a common copyright.

Court, Caixin to the court submitted a list of infringing works, Caixin and the staff of the labor contract and other 7 evidence. The case was adjourned because both sides said they would go back to discuss whether they agreed to mediate.

Yesterday 5:26 P.M., Phoenix issued a statement to the financial new apology, said that it agreed with the new money for copyright protection efforts, and financial new active communication, negotiate apology and compensation program. The following 6:04 P.M., Caixin also published a statement on its official website, said that it has filed an application to the Haidian court, to remove the lawsuit. Reporter Zhang Shuling