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Case: Try to choose the thing that does not have the copyright to do

Statement person: An entrepreneur, has founded the music website, is engaged in the video service

When I was a music website I bought the copyright of more than 10 music factories, and it took about 200,000. Small factory card is relatively cheap, four record companies more expensive. Netizens search the mainstream, or those big company music, the mainstream we only bought the "sea Butterflies" family, you search a "JJ Lin" can at least have it. Now I do video site, try to avoid the use of copyrighted content, but the main hit some users upload video.

Domestic copyright protection compared to foreign very outdated, thunder, fast broadcast such a model itself to the copyright challenge is very big. To be honest, as long as the thunderbolt such companies are still in the market, intellectual property issues can not be completely resolved.

Small companies buy copyright relatively cheap, when they grow up the other side may be very high price. Big companies and small companies handle different ways. YouTube relies on its own system, each upload a video, will be with all its copyright library to compare, if you find that you use a certain period or a piece of music, you will tell the copyright party and allow it to delete.

The question of the case extension

Q: When should the copyright issue be handled?

A: Experienced lawyers will tell you what the risk is if you don't get the authorization. Like Cooley's lawyers and the big American film and television companies like Disney, ABC have dealt with, the other side is more powerful, there are harsh terms, to find a lawyer to know what terms can swing. If you do not go through a lawyer and talk to each other directly, it is possible to passively accept a lot of terms. --Juberchun

A: In China, some people are malicious, want to use copyright to make money. They publish pictures on the internet and say they are free to use, but when you print them online and use them for commercial purposes, you need to pay for them. --Zhou

A: Before the listing is the latest to be done, the first two years before the launch of the preparation of applications and maintenance. It's hard to clean up when the company is too big, too early to clean up and no ability, medium is the best time to clean up, and you are already in the radar range of others.

If your business model relies on something that is not what you produce, I think you have to do it very well to be successful, or you can't afford the royalties. The industry has a few, you are the fifth place, under such circumstances is not past. --Kuantai

Supplementary reading A

How to see the patent tug of foreign giants?

Dictation | Juberchun Wang Jialiang

Among giants, patents are weapons. Mr Jobs is a tougher CEO who wants to hit a fast-growing competitor with a patent. A few days ago HTC and Apple finally reconciled. HTC, aware of the impact on Apple, has focused on patents, collecting patents from many 3G and 4G wireless technology companies. It starts a patent war with Apple, and if it doesn't, the case becomes more complicated. When you have a dispute with the Giants that you are already playing cards with them, you can understand it as a sign of success, but you have to have a hand. --Juberchun

Take the case of Samsung and Apple, many patents from a purely professional point of view is not tenable, tort is not so direct. The key issue in the case is the American judicial system.

In a patent application there is a "claim", whether the infringement depends on the claim, not the content of the patent itself, but the claim is sometimes larger than the patent description, sometimes small. The patent itself is a very professional thing, patent writing itself has a lot of tips, the applicant can write it obscure, most people actually can not understand. Most of the time, the defendants ' lawyers were trying to get the jury's sympathy.

In the course of the proceedings, in addition to the jury has another role-the patent office, it will again analyze the existence of the patent. Sometimes the patent office has not yet reached a conclusion, the defendant company constantly give evidence that they have no infringement, confusion, before Samsung and Apple in the case of tablet computer, Samsung took the "Star Wars" inside a scene to say that it was already a tablet computer, it is very funny.

Finally, 60%, 70% are often reconciled, or even dragged, dragged to the end of the product life cycle. The reason why Apple and Samsung have been able to play all the time is because of the high level of concern in this case, the judges, lawyers, and juries have spent a lot of the day on it. --Wang Jialiang

Supplementary Reading II

Facebook didn't have any patent reserves in the early days, and it started registering in 2008, and the law department told everyone every week that it would do a 10-minute sermon, or we'd be too lazy to think about it. Facebook is still an engineer culture, and other departments rarely push things.

Patent in the United States has several application procedures, there are some of you directly to submit information up, the patent office first not to review, like the first occupy the place, within a year you can send a formal application, play a time lag. Facebook has incentives to apply for a patent, and the application will be more successful, giving hundreds of of dollars in cash directly. Later we are also "education", know that the patent is "a gun not loaded," can frighten people, looks like a dead end, in fact, the best result is to reach a settlement.

I have applied for five or six teams and two have passed. Facebook has a small team dedicated to intellectual property, and as an engineer, leader only needs to communicate with the team. He would ask me, like an interview, what the patent was for, what the technical framework was, and then draw him a picture; he would do it after he heard it and then send it back to me.

In addition to the patent and trade secrets, but I did not hear that Facebook has any trade secrets, but the company's people must sign some confidentiality agreement, the visitors will be very strict inspection. I think there is a bit more to note: Sometimes code leaks are irrelevant, and most importantly, those parameters. A product out, you will need a lot of time, experience to adjust parameters, this is wealth. Other companies may not be able to do the same, after all, we are not the same size, but if competitors copy words, still can take shortcuts.

Facebook catches, there are often people in unknown companies sending e-mails to employees saying you violated one of our technology patents. The legal officer immediately informs all his colleagues not to delete the mail. They will first use the existing patents to refute each other, generally one round of the other side will not sound. If they do violate their rights, Facebook will make a lot of money to fix it.