Tencent prosecuting "love comics" is successful, to compensation of 2.5 million Yuan due to infringement – Tencent, comics-IT information

China's first foreign infringement on webcomics, and finally bring the curtain down. Recently, the Chengdu wenjiang District Court Tencent love comics tort case, the trial results for: three guilty of copyright infringement the defendant in jail and fine of 2.5 million Yuan, respectively.

Love cartoons, information is a non-commercial professional manga sharing sites, roaming culture of Shenzhen is behind technology limited, public information on the website more than a total of more than 6,000 cartoons, mostly from Japan, South Korea, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan and other regions. In 2015, love comic infringement infringement of Tencent, a paper petition to court, case is two years.

Comic platform, copyright lawsuit almost every large and small, have the industry turmoil is nothing new. Why the comics industry violations frequently staged? Another comic platform because of copyright issues down, is being heralded as a profession was formalized way of development will usher in a real spring? Which started with pirated resources comics platforms, how to survive them?

Infringement story love Comics: "non-commercial platform" transnational money?

In March 2015, Tencent will love cartoons case in law enforcement into urban culture Corps and the Chengdu Public Security Bureau-SEC team, called love cartoon network suspected of comics on Tencent cause infringement. After receiving a report reflecting Tencent Chengdu to thoroughly investigate this case, finally confirmed the love most of the comics on comics Web site a large number of suspected of belonging to an unauthorized.

Because of the large number of works involved, the beginning of April 2015, Sichuan province even set up four task force to investigate, respectively, to "roaming culture of Shenzhen technology limited" seat, comics, Web site server data server location for investigation and evidence gathering, fixing a lot of electronic evidence.

Investigation found that since August 2014, leaf, Jiang and Hu established the company, part of the network and server settings in wenjiang district of Chengdu. Three people in the case without the permission of the copyright owner, established before the River a "love comics" site, a large collection of comics by various means, and organize, edit and upload to the Web site for visitors are free to watch, to increase the number of visits.

And the aim is that after the traffic through advertising fees. It is understood that in just 8 months after incorporation, the company successfully earned more than 1.8 million Yuan.

In other words, love cartoons through pirated resources make a large illegal interests. Identified by the China and Japan and South Korea, the demon father, 6 works with Tencent sites work the same content followed 5,216 days man works such as the alalei, none of the rights to authorize the company and Web site, 23 South Korean comics such as the blood river without obtaining permission from the right.

At present, the Court has three different levels of sentences the suspects cash penalties. The verdict should be comic infringement case history of one of the most severe penalties, when the news came out, many people in the industry applauded the outcome of this.

"Rights defenders" Tencent singled out a number of Pirate-Party complaints were nearly

Tencent suing the pirate comic sites and platforms, this is not the first time. In fact, as early as 2014, loves comics for copyright infringement the defendant to court. Culture radio, press and publication Bureau, Yangzhou city, Jiangsu Province, investigating love comics, love comic party identification without the permission of the rights the unauthorized dissemination of pirated comics, and uses a vulgar obscene content. Later sentenced to remove unauthorized comics, and a fine of 100,000 yuan.

In 2015, the Tencent "comic" small claims court due to the unauthorized dissemination of Tencent comics platforms under the fox demon little matchmaker, the Dragon in the man, the mountains and rivers State in Figure 5 of comics. Tencent's lawsuit asks the Court to order the defendant to immediately stop the infringement copyright of these 5 comics, and to compensate the plaintiff's economic loss amounted to 1.4 million Yuan, and so on.

Defendants in the trial had argued that comics are not the content provider of the fox demon little matchmaker, never make any business income from their APP or comic content. But the final verification by the Court, the plaintiff company had made author and comics series the comic does without the permission of the rights.

Trial results are as follows:

Given the defendant comics help link has been deleted in connection with the works, actually had to cease the infringement. Last defendant costs a total of 302,000 yuan to compensate the plaintiff tecent economic, rights and reasonable cost of 21,000 yuan.

In January 2016, Tencent is a magic screen comic's application to court, because this application is the brother of alleged copyright infringement of software owned by Tencent 4 comic works such as the ACE Yu shi. Tencent said comics comics a magic screen unauthorized dissemination of its works in the application, violated the legitimate rights and interests of Tencent, sought compensation from the defendant of 1.25 million Yuan.

In October 2013, China's report to the national copyright Bureau of customs and Excise, report to the Hong Kong Federation of animation "anime" Web site allegedly without permission from the rights holders, infringement available to the public without permission of the Naruto comics. Finally, the departments concerned to make the platform delete infringement of comics, and a fine of 100,000 yuan penalty.

Apart from the infringement of pirated comics platforms, there are magazines, books and other forms of infringement. In 2009, the cartoonist Zhang bin, the prosecution of the special attention of the infringement of magazines, saying that in the case of without the author's permission, magazines continuously infringing uses of their works without permission of the new translation and Western humor cartoons in 18. Zhang bin, take the magazine to court eventually claimed 540,000 yuan. In 2015, the cartoonist c butter sauce works suspected of being of the 41 cm super happy Merchants Bank embezzlement, cartoon-become a Fund spokesman.

Foreign works case is the future reference, piracy era platform bow

Worth noting is that Tencent love comics infringement case involving a large number of overseas work, it is also restricted to a certain extent China's laws and regulations on the judgment in the case. Tencent suing love comics infringement case is successful, will become an important reference in the industry index.

An industry source told the entertainment capital, China's current laws and regulations, cases of violations when it comes to overseas work, involved cases requires attribution of the works have an absolute determination. One problem is, subject (Tencent and love comic case, Tencent, corresponding to the identity) for overseas intellectual property rights in the domestic exercise of power that China does not recognize this right belongs to the identity.

To cite an example, belonging to prove a product in China, is a registered trademark and so on. But overseas is to testify, no institutions to manage. Domestic and overseas laws and regulations system of dislocation, can lead to such lawsuits involving overseas works belonging to the difficulty is very high. Such as Tencent infringed the works belonging to the King of the pirates, but the authorized Shueisha overseas and was not harmed. For the plaintiffs, would mean spending a lot of time to prove with hard evidence to prove the ownership of works in the country.

"China will let you come up with enough evidence to the Court, but are generally very difficult, unless you change foreigners thinking habits and business models. Short takes two or three years, and may take up to 20 years. "One industry source said. Previously, platform dilidli infringement complaints relating to overseas work, but eventually lost because of insufficient evidence.

Back to the comics field, the rampant spread of piracy platform for comic book resources, is a helpless mess. Comics and animation platforms almost always relies on the piracy, and large video platform to buy genuine copyright works, while also facing the threat of piracy-resource flows.

A video platform animation Director told the entertainment capital: "big video broadcast platform licensed resources, it cannot broadcast piracy, nor push the pirated content. But small can not only broadcast pirated Edition, also with publicity push. "Even into the vulnerable side of the platform, and the audience can't tell genuine and pirated, just sticking with the resources and faster running.

Properties based on piracy platform they face enormous difficulties of transition. If you want the transformation, a pirate platform may be cut by more than 75% traffic. But this 75% of the flow, for them is operating there, once cut off means death. In China there are no successful piracy platform on the market, entered a vicious cycle of piracy.

But with the perfecting of laws and regulations, comic platform video platform for genuine and growing awareness of resources, resources and audience of the genuine recognition of increasing piracy environment can be improved. January 2017, the "Thirteen-Five" national intellectual property protection and utilization planning seven focus will quickly improve the system of legal protection of intellectual property. This means that the Government's intervention, may have brought new hope to the industry.

One industry source said: "the pirate cartoon site at some stage enriches the spirit of our childhood world of entertainment, comics in China, Japan and South Korea, and cultivate a reading habit, and even for the formation of a IP share a large amount of traffic. Pirate resources is not useless, but in the development of the times, is the transformation and the curtain call! ”

腾讯起诉“爱漫画”成功，因侵权需赔偿250万元 - 腾讯,漫画 - IT资讯

中国首例涉外网络漫画侵权案，终于拉下帷幕。近期，成都市温江区法院判决了爱漫画侵权腾讯案，审判结果为：三名犯侵犯著作权罪的被告人分别获刑并处罚金250万元。

爱漫画，资料显示是一家非商业性的专业漫画分享交流网站，背后是深圳漫游文化科技有限公司，公开资料显示网站上共有6000多部漫画作品，大多数来自日本、韩国、美国、中国香港和中国台湾等地区。2015年，爱漫画被侵权对象腾讯公司一纸侵权诉状告上法庭，官司一打就是两年。

对漫画平台而言，大大小小的版权官司几乎每天都有，已经不是什么新鲜的行业乱象了。为何漫画行业侵权事件频繁上演？一家又一家漫画平台因版权问题倒下，是否正预示着这一行业正在往正规化道路发展，或将迎来真正的春天？而这些以盗版资源起家的漫画平台，究竟该如何继续获得生存呢？

爱漫画侵权案始末：“非商业性平台”跨国赚大钱？

2015年3月，腾讯公司将爱漫画告到成都市文化执法总队和成都市公安局网安支队，称爱漫画网涉嫌对腾讯漫画作品造成侵权。收到腾讯公司的报案反映后，成都市方面对此案件进行了彻查，最后证实了爱漫画网站上的大多数漫画作品大量涉嫌属于未经授权。

因为涉案作品数量庞大，2015年4月初，四川省甚至成立了四个专案组进行深入调查，分别前往“深圳漫游文化科技有限公司”所在地、网站服务器所在地、漫画数据服务器所在地进行调查取证工作，固定了大量的电子证据。

经调查发现，自2014年8月以来，叶某、江某和胡某成立了该公司，并将部分网络服务器设置在成都温江区内。三人在未经著作权人许可的情况下，利用江某之前建立的“爱漫画”网站，由胡某通过各种途径搜集大量的漫画作品，并整理、编辑后上传至该网站供访客免费观看，以提高网站的访问量。

而这样做的目的在于，流量上去之后可以通过刊登广告收取费用。据了解，在成立公司后的短短8个月间，该公司就顺利盈利180万余元。

也就是说，爱漫画通过盗版资源牟取了大额非法利益。经中国和日本韩多方鉴定，《恶魔奶爸》等6部作品与腾讯网站作品的对应内容相同，涉案的《阿拉蕾》等5216部日漫作品，权利人均未对该公司和网站进行授权，《热血江湖》等23部韩国漫画也都未取得权利人的许可。

目前，法院已经多三名犯罪嫌疑人进行了不同程度的刑期判决的现金处罚。此次判决应该是漫画侵权案史上最严厉的一次处罚，消息出来时，不少业内人士都对这样的结果拍手称快。

“维权卫士”腾讯单挑多家盗版方，被投诉近万次

腾讯将盗版漫画网站和平台告上这不是第一次。其实早在2014年，爱漫画就曾因侵犯著作权被告上法庭。当时江苏省扬州市文化广电新闻出版局队爱漫画进行调查，鉴定爱漫画当事人叶某未经权利人许可擅自传播大量盗版漫画作品，且内容包含低俗淫秽等内容。最后被判处删除未经授权的漫画作品，并罚款10万元人民币。

2015年，腾讯将“漫画帮”告上法庭，原因是该漫画平台未经授权传播腾讯旗下《狐妖小红娘》《君临臣下》《山河社稷图》等5部漫画作品。腾讯诉请法院判令被告立即停止侵害这5部漫画作品的著作权，并赔偿原告经济损失共计140万元等等。

虽然在审判过程中被告曾辩称漫画帮不是《狐妖小红娘》的内容提供方，也从未利用自家APP或者漫画内容获取商业收入。但最后经法院核实，原告腾讯已经取得作者授权，而漫画帮确实有连载该漫画并未经权利人许可。

审判结果为：

鉴于被告漫画帮已经删除涉案作品链接，实际已经停止侵权。最后被告赔偿原告腾讯经济损失费共计30.2万元，维权合理费用2.1万元。

2016年1月，腾讯将一款名为魔屏漫画的应用软件告上法庭，原因是此应用软件涉嫌侵权腾讯旗下《尸兄》《王牌御史》等4部漫画作品。腾讯方面表示，魔屏漫画漫画未经授权在应用内传播旗下作品，侵犯了腾讯的合法权益，要求被告赔偿125万元人民币。

2013年10月，中国香港海关向国家版权局举报，香港动漫联合会举报“动漫屋”网站涉嫌未经权利人许可，擅自向公众提供侵权漫画作品《火影忍者》。最终，有关部门作出平台删除侵权漫画作品，并罚款10万元的处罚。

除盗版漫画平台侵权外，还存在杂志、图书等多种侵权形式。2009年，漫画家张斌起诉《特别关注》杂志侵权，称在未经作者本人允许的情况下，杂志擅自连续侵权使用了其作品《新译西方幽默》中漫画18篇。最终张斌将该杂志告上法庭，索赔54万元。2015年，漫画家C酱酱作品《41厘米的超幸福》疑似遭招商银行盗用，漫画形象成为其基金代言人。

涉外作品官司今后有了借鉴，盗版平台谢幕时代来临

值得注意的是，爱漫画侵权腾讯案涉及到大量的海外作品，这也在一定程度制约了中国法律法规对案件的判决。腾讯状告爱漫画侵权案成功，必将成为业界的重要参考指标。

一位业内人士告诉娱乐资本论，目前中国的法律法规中，侵权案件一旦涉及到海外作品，就要求对所涉及案件中作品的归属权有一个绝对的认定。其中有一个难题就是，诉讼主体（腾讯和爱漫画案件中，腾讯所对应的身份）对于海外的知识产权主体在国内行使权力时，国内是不承认这个权利所属的身份的。

举个例子，在中国要证明一个产品的归属，就要注册商标等。但是海外是自证的，没有机构来管理。国内法律法规和海外制度的错位，会导致这种涉及海外作品归属的官司进行难度非常高。比如腾讯所属作品《海贼王》被侵权，但是其海外授权方集英社并没有受到伤害。那么对原告方来说，就意味着要花费大量的时间来举证，用确凿的证据来证明作品在国内的归属权。

“中国法院会让你拿出足够的证据来，但是一般非常难，除非改变外国人的思维习惯和商业模式。短的需要两三年，长的可能需要20年。”一位业内人士表示。此前，有平台投诉dilidli侵权涉及海外作品，但最终因为证据不足败诉了。

回到漫画领域来说，各大盗版平台上对于漫画资源的猖狂传播，是行业内视之无奈的乱象。一般漫画和动漫平台几乎都是依靠盗版起家，大的视频平台购买正版版权，同时还要面临盗版资源分走流量的威胁。

一位视频平台的动漫中心负责人告诉娱乐资本论：“大的视频平台播出了正版资源，就不能播盗版，也不能推盗版内容。但是小平台不仅可以把正版盗版一起播出，还能一起宣推。”大平台甚至成了弱势的一方，而观众无法判断正版和盗版，只是跟着资源多和出得快的一方跑。

基于盗版平台的属性，它们面临转型的困难其实也非常大。如果想要转型，一个盗版平台可能要砍掉75%以上的流量。但这75%的流量，对于它们来说就是运作的根本，一旦砍掉就意味着死亡。目前中国市场上还没有出现成功转型的盗版平台，因此进入了盗版的恶性循环。

但随着法律法规的健全，漫画平台和视频平台对于正版资源的保护意识越来越强，以及受众对正版资源的认可度逐渐提高，盗版环境是可以改善的。2017年1月份，《“十三五”国家知识产权保护和运用规划》提出七项重点工作，将加快完善知识产权法律保护制度。这意味着政府的介入，或许会对行业带来一些新希望。

一位业内人士称：“盗版漫画网站在一定阶段丰富了我们孩提时代的精神娱乐世界，把日韩漫画带进了中国，培养了阅读习惯，甚至为一个IP的形成共享了大量的流量。盗版资源并不是一无是处，但是时代在发展，是该转型和谢幕啦！”