Sohu sues infringement

NetEase Science and technology news June 24, Sohu announced today, will formally sue Beijing's byte Bounce Technology Co., Ltd., said its existence of infringement of copyright and unfair competition, demand the other party immediately stop the infringement, and claim the economic loss of 11 million Yuan, and published an apology statement. At present, Beijing Haidian District Court has officially accepted the matter.

Sohu Editor-in-Chief Wu Chenguang said that today's headlines without permission to copy, tamper with copyright copyright content Sohu, a serious violation of Sohu's copyright, we call on the industry to consciously respect and protect copyright, resolutely resist unfair competition.

According to Sohu Company, today's headline tort mode is mainly two kinds: first, direct crawl replication using Sohu, Sohu Mobile phone version, as well as Sohu News client articles, pictures. That is, to crawl the news page content of third party, convert content into XML and store it in its own server, when the user browses the news, the XML content is rendered by the app to the news page. The above approach to display the form of "transcoding", the recent headlines today under pressure has stopped the Sohu content of the transcoding infringement. Second, through more covert "deep link" form, tort. The specific approach is to use the app's built-in browser framework to display Sohu News page, and the mobile end of the Software Web page to set the original link address, at the same time, today's headlines on the page to add their own promotional content, comments content.

China Swiss law firm Li Lawyer said that today's headlines in the Web page directly copied and "Deep link" sohu copyright content, constitutes a direct infringement of Sohu company rights; In addition, today's headlines delete the original page of Sohu ads, Took away the site should be Sohu's traffic clicks and original advertising interests, but in their own mobile end of the launch page, set up a link to the ads, so as to gain benefits, constitute unfair competition.

For tort prosecution, today's headline called The Search engine, Sohu technicians said, according to the search engine's robot protocol, unauthorized crawling of content, but today's headlines never released its robotic user, causing us to be unable to screen each other's crawl. Before, the traditional media have denounced today's headline infringement, today's headlines have been Guangzhou daily and the Beijing News filed copyright litigation, and the Guangzhou Daily reached an out-of-court settlement. In addition, Changsha Evening News newspaper group and all its media digital copyright Hunan Star Online Network Communication Co., Ltd. also called for "today's headline" To stop the infringement. In this respect, the State copyright administration said that the "Today's Headlines" network tort investigation. (Yanghui)