Recently, Taiwan police successfully cracked the case of Taiwan’s well-known pirated website "Fenglin.com". According to , it is reported that for many years, Fenglin.com has provided pirated videos and obtained illegal benefits through clicks on online advertisements. The infringement amount is nearly NT$1 billion. The Motion Picture Association of America, Japan and many organizations have appointed lawyers to file a complaint. The 12426 Copyright Monitoring Center assisted in piracy monitoring, and at the same time, it was entrusted by Youku, PP video and other copyright parties to protect the rights of pirated websites. At present, the Fenglin.com website has been shut down and two suspects have been arrested.
According to data from the 12426 Copyright Monitoring Center, Fenglin.com mainly provides online broadcasting services of film and television dramas to users in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan. The video source of this website is mainly self-uploaded by the website (not UGC), including Taiwanese dramas, Japanese dramas, Korean dramas, mainland dramas and other columns, involving a total of 13,359 film and television works, including 2462 TV dramas in mainland China and 182 variety shows. Monitoring shows that the website server is located in the United States, and the video source is stored on servers in Canada and other places. As of April 1, 2020, the website Alexa Taiwan ranks 137th. Screenshot of the site before the closure of
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Fenglin.com is a typical cross-border infringement case . It is difficult to offline due to factors such as jurisdiction and difficulty in tracking. The joint effort with all parties to crack down on piracy and infringement of Fenglin.com is another successful case of 12426 Copyright Monitoring Center. However, this is not the first cross-border infringement case assisted by the 12426 Copyright Monitoring Center. In 2019, the 12426 Copyright Monitoring Center accepted the commission of an overseas right holder to track down the main operator of a well-known pirated animation website in 3 months, and successfully assisted in shutting down this cross-border pirated website that lasted for 8 years.
Nowadays, the trend of internationalization, socialization, and mobilization of piracy communication channels is becoming more and more obvious , which has seriously affected the legitimate rights and interests of copyright owners. Cross-border piracy has become a stubborn disease of the current copyright industries such as film and television, but the magic is one foot high, and the road is high. The problems caused by new technologies can be solved by technology first. According to the "Network Copyright Monitoring Report 2019" compiled by the 12426 Copyright Monitoring Center, major network platforms represented by BAT are currently actively creating a "copyright center" through artificial intelligence, blockchain, and big data technologies. Enabling copyright confirmation, copyright monitoring, evidence collection and rights protection, and introducing professional third-party monitoring and protection organizations to provide one-stop copyright protection services.
Take Guanyong Technology, a leading organization in the field of network copyright monitoring and protection, as an example , the EQain smart copyright platform released in November 2019, which can be accessed via API with one key, 7*24 hours for tens of millions of authors /Rightholders, provide copyright monitoring in 10 major work areas such as film and television, short videos/we-media, sports, music, pictures, comics, games, e-commerce, and knowledge payment, as well as online Yidog blockchain copyright deposit certificates, Notice-delete”, notary office electronic evidence collection, case clue distribution, authorization cooperation and other value-added services, and through the 12426 Copyright Monitoring Center and Beijing Network Copyright Monitoring Center to achieve a success rate of more than 95% of mainstream platforms.
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12426 said that for cross-border piracy websites, domestic and overseas regulatory authorities and right holders need to join forces to combat piracy websites in terms of traffic sources and advertising revenue. This is the general trend of building a copyright power. The 12426 Copyright Monitoring Center will also Strive to serve IP rights holders around the world and jointly create a new copyright ecology.
12426 Copyright Monitoring Center , formerly the Copyright Monitoring Center of the China Copyright Association, was co-founded by Guanyong Technology, senior experts in the industry, copyright enforcement experts, and well-known lawyers. Adhere to sociality and public welfare, and long-term entrustment by regulatory authorities and all sectors of society, aiming to build an authoritative third-party copyright service organization to provide global rights holders with all-network, all-platform and all-time rights confirmation, rights protection and authorization services.