Mo Yan Book copyright A free-for-All: The E-book market is in disarray

Who is the copyright of Mo Yan's book publishing? The answer to this question, perhaps even Mo Yan himself, is difficult to say. Mo Yan's Nobel Prize for literature has been transformed from a news event into a "Mo Yan effect". The publishers ' contention for the copyright of Mo Yan's books has intensified.　　Reporter investigation found that the fine Canon Bowei, Shanghai Literary Publishing house, writers Publishing house and Chinese online, have openly declared that they have Mo Yan Works of the relevant copyright, which is not a conclusion. Three publishers scramble to publish entity books according to the reporter understands, the current market Mo Yan's entity book copyright mainly by writer Publishing house, Shanghai Literature and Art publishing house, the fine code Bowei These three families to have. After Mo Yan won the prize, three publishing parties rushed to print their related works overnight.　　Among them, the writer's publishing house is still busy planning, recommending Mo Yan's latest anthology; Shanghai Literature and Art publishing house and the electric business cooperation, online open Mo Yan Book works column. To further compete for market share, three publishers have not forgotten to use various channels for self-promotion. Writers Publishing House and Shanghai Literature and art publishing house because Mo Yan and they respectively in 1986 and 2000 have had cooperation, in the statement has its 16 works copyright, under the premise of emphasizing and Mo Yan has more than decades of friendship, the main "affection card."　　The classic Bowei is the only publisher with all the works of Mo Yan (which has been listed and not listed), and the publishers of the rights of copyright and electronic and film promotion. Copyright in response to the tripartite diverging three publishers, each claiming to have the copyright of Mo Yan's works, one side also repeatedly stressed their "exclusive" identity. Who is the copyright of Mo Yan's works? Is there a duplication of authorization?　　If one side insists that it is an exclusive buyout, does that mean that the other two are infringing? In this respect, the reporter specially interviewed these three publishers. Fine Canon Bowei CEO Chen Liming said that the Bowei in May this year, with Mo Yan Exclusive signed the publication and recommendation of all its works, the validity period is not less than three years.　　For publishers who publish their writings after May this year, they are tort (excluding the publishers who have cooperated with Mo Yan before and are still in the copyright renewal period). In an interview with reporters, Shanghai literary publishing house made it clear that it possessed all the copyrights of Mo Yan's novels. To the reporter mentions the copyright term question, the Shanghai literature and art publishing house replied "does not know", and directly will press the telephone to hang up.　　As of press time, the writer's publishing house has not made a positive response. Zhaohu, the lead lawyer at Handro law firm in Beijing, said the controversy over copyright in Mo Yan was focused on the duplication of copyright rights held by three publishers. According to the reporter's grasp of the situation, three publishers have claimed that they have Mo Yan 16 novels copyright.　　The Writers ' publishing house and the Shanghai Literature and art publishing house are urgently published, and neither side has made a positive response to the intersection of Mo Yan's works in copyright. Electronic book publishing market chaos in response to the current network of Mo-yan pirated e-books "flying across the sky" chaos, fine Canon Bowei in the first time issued their own "exclusive voice", Jing Dian boVictoria Marketing director Chen Wan in the media interview that the current fine code Bowei has not authorized the electronic copyright to the website, now most of the sites are tort, a small number of possible before with Mo Yan had an agency agreement has not expired. In the digital copyright of Mo Yan's works, Chinese online is ranked as the "little part" of Chen Wan. Long before Mo Yan won the prize, he signed the intention of cooperating with the Chinese online, in its 17K novel website, specifically set up a Mo Yan area for users to download and online reading.　　She Guangcai, executive vice president of Chinese online, said Mo Yan is a Chinese online contract writer, in 2000 Chinese online set up in the beginning of the cooperation with them, including "White Dog Swing", "abundant milk fat buttocks", "Red Sorghum family", "sandalwood punishment" and other 19 works have been digital publication. Chinese online in the promotion of Mo-Yan books at the same time, from 2004 to date, has been helping Mo Yan to carry out a series of anti-piracy rights work. She Guangcai said: "During this period, we have launched dozens of rights cases, all-round protection of Mo Yan 20 works of legal copyright."　　The case of "mangrove", "Thumb copy", "Transparent carrot" and "sandalwood punishment" illegally disseminated by China Railcom in 2007 years, was accepted by the Court of Xicheng District of Beijing, which judged the infringement of CRC and made compensation. The discussion and controversy caused by lawyers ' interpretation of copyright issues around the issue of Mo Yan's copyright seem to have historical basis in Zhaohu. Mo Yan's main works spans the last century 890 's, and this period is in the development period of China's reform and opening-up, "copyright law" has undergone a process from scratch to modification and perfection.　　In this context, writers and publishers of the legal awareness of copyright is not sound. Nowadays, the relevant laws of copyright protection in our country have been perfected. Copyright disputes, to a certain extent, focus on the issue of the signing of the contract. "Generally speaking, the copyright contract between the author and the publisher is a proprietary publication contract, and the rights enjoyed by the Publisher are also referred to as proprietary publication rights," Zhaohu said. Each book has its own exclusive right to publish and is valid. "In other words, if author A has signed a five-year proprietary publication contract with Publisher B, in the meantime, the C publishing House will constitute a tort if it is published without the permission of A and B."　　If A has sold the book to publisher C during the contract period with B, then a will also have to bear the corresponding default compensation. One of the key details of the copyright dispute among the three publishers is that there is no duplication of authority in the tripartite contract signed by Mo Yan.　　Zhaohu said that if Mo Yan each book the exclusive right to publish the validity of the three parties in the contract can be reasonably deployed, it does not constitute a tort. Zhaohu suggested that writers should have a clear understanding of copyright law and the copyright ownership of existing works before signing a contract.　　In the maintenance of their legitimate rights and interests, but also to avoid the emergence of disputes. Commercial newspaper reporter Chen intern journalist Louyan background entity publication continues to be out of stock ebookOnce the news of the Nobel Prize for Literature was released, the domestic book market began to scramble for its books. Up to now, the major bookstores continued for several consecutive days the phenomenon of breaking goods has not been changed, there are officials said, want to read Mo Yan's book, until next week. Entity publication resource shortage, also affected to include Dangdang, Jingdong Mall, and other physical books online sales of electricity dealers.　　The major electric dealers have resorted to all the tricks, and some even launched the "book Intermediary Services", is to be able to take advantage of Mo Yan, fishing to "a bucket of gold." At the same time as the "real book Scramble" intensified, Mo Yan's electronic version of the click volume showed an unusually hot situation. According to relevant data, on the subject of Mo Yan's books, such as "Frog", "Life and Death fatigue", within 24 hours of a day clicks more than 1 million times, the click Rate increased by more than 10 times times. After the release of the award, 17K novel online Mo Yan single Book of the highest reading volume has reached million.