After Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize, the app for Mo Yan's works flocked out, but mostly pirated apps. (TechWeb map)
TechWeb Wang October 18 report
The smoke of the
copyright war has spread from the internet to the age of mobile internet.
Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize, a "Mo Yan novel selected [Simple Fan]hd" app lives in the App Store free list first. However, this app does not indicate whether to obtain the authorization of the author, netizens commented that the interface is not clear enough, built-in ads, which "abundant milk fat buttocks" is the probation version, each chapter is incomplete, and a large number of typos, questioning is pirated app.
in pea pod search "Mo Yan", related app nearly 40.
before this, the mobile Internet copyright war has begun, the two sides are copyright and channel side: The encyclopedia sued Apple for compensation of 520,000 Yuan, the Chinese Writers activist league to sue Apple case formally trial. In China, the Chinese online to the major application shop to send a letter of attorney, claiming tens of thousands of dollars; some app stores have shelves for copyright issues, and well-known reading software Zaker has canceled some of its sources.
A reading industry personage said, the mobile Internet content copyright is still in the gray area, but along with the industry development as well as the rights person's attention, the infringement content inevitably will shuffle, the video copyright path again.
Reading copyright gray Zone
both Apple's App Store and the domestic Android app market are rife with pirated content.
has a batch of app developers who choose current hot books and make them into app Store without author authorization or even paid sales.
Amateur developer Xiao Zhang has been doing ebook apps since early last year. His business model is as follows: Select the current popular books to make E-book app, after Apple audit online app Store. Half a month-1 months later, a letter from the copyright party to Apple will be received, accusing it of infringement. Next, the two sides argued, Zhang will let the other party to produce copyright evidence, if the other party to show evidence, means that the app debate failed, will be apple down the shelf.
Currently, he developed 95% of the ebook has been Apple under the shelf, but in this half month-1 months of "safe period", he had a monthly sum of 20,000 yuan. The threshold for an ebook app is not high, so there are not a few developers involved in the business.
in the domestic, the application store mostly take "notify after delete" strategy. Application store development early, want to fill more content, audit bias loose. For the Reading app, the App store usually chooses the shelves first, and if any of the authors object to it, put it down.
Chinese online legal director Fangfang said currently in the major application markets (such as Apple Stores, etc.) have a lot of pirated electronic books, the Chinese "online Anti-Piracy alliance" has been in these areas have launched a campaign to defend rights, which sued Apple infringement case, has been in the proceedings.
in the subscribing industry, an industry personage who declined to be named said the company would negotiate copyright issues with the copyright owner to let the other party know and reach an agreement, but did not disclose whether to buy the copyright and the amount. "The current mobile internet copyright is in the gray area, everyone is not ' clean ', the current status and the same as in previous years of video." ”
sued App Store for landmark cases
pirated content reached its peak in 2011. This year, two big cases became the App Store landmark case:
one is the big encyclopedia to sue Apple for 520,000. The court held that, based on the facts identified, the operator of the app store could be identified as Apple. Applications purchased and downloaded by users in the App Store "China Encyclopedia" (Jianfan) should be the infringing application. Since Apple cannot prove that the application was developed by a third-party developer, it should be determined that Apple has developed it itself. Even if the application is developed for Third-party developers, Apple has been involved in the development process of the application involved, selected the application and decided on its own distribution on the App Store, while profiting from the sales gains, and in fact the joint tort with the third party, still constitutes a joint infringement. The court tried to stop the infringement and compensate the large encyclopedia 520,000 yuan.
Second, the Chinese Writers activist League started a lawsuit against Apple last October, and so far 13 writers, including Han, mu Murong and Li, sued the court, involving 59 works, and claimed a total of more than 23 million. In January this year, the second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing formally accepted the lawsuit against Apple by the Chinese Writers Rights Alliance. The case was rejected by the court after the company filed a jurisdictional objection, which was not pronounced until October 12 this year.
