This resulted in the content and data of some manuscripts being infringed.
Just on Wednesday, Lu Feiyu received a lawyer’s letter from Sohu News, specifying that six news articles under its sports channel and 13 news articles in the entertainment section involved infringing reprints.
Sohu demanded a public apology from Toutiao and compensation of 350,000 yuan for infringement.
Tencent News then followed up and pointed out that Tonight Toutiao had misappropriated their social news content, involving 63 articles and five contributors.
Of course, Tencent cooperates with Zhihu and Pintuan, so they did not submit a lawyer’s letter.
This can be regarded as a follow-up blow in the public opinion war.
After receiving the lawyer’s letter, Lu Feiyu found Jiang Qin immediately, but Jiang Qin was not surprised.
I often walk by the river without getting my shoes wet.
They don’t even have an editorial department, so this kind of result is completely normal.
“What should we do now?”
“It is not us who infringe the copyright, but the contributors. Even if we offer compensation and apology, we should not be responsible.”
The person who spoke was a supervisor named Chen Qiong who Lu Feiyu hired from a newspaper company.
Jiang Qin glanced at him: “Why are you more capitalist than me?”
“Thank you for the compliment, boss.”
“?”
Jiang Qinxin said that the word “capitalist” is obviously a fucking derogatory term. Why do you think it is a compliment? “Our part-time contributors are all college students. You asked them to compensate the 350,000 yuan. You didn’t ask them to do it.” life?”
Chen Qiong was stunned for a moment: “But they did make a mistake first. They stole other people’s manuscripts to make money from us. This kind of behavior is very bad.”
“Young people all make mistakes, not to mention I don’t miss the 350,000 yuan.”
Dong Wenhao frowned: “Boss, do we have to pay for this money ourselves?”
Jiang Qin nodded: “We will compensate the money and let those college students apologize, but not now.”
“The deadline given by Sohu is three days.”
“Send a sharp-tongued man to argue the case, and we’ll be safe for a week.”
Jiang Qin looked at their puzzled eyes and spoke softly: “In a week, the optimized content creation platform Toutiao will be open to the whole society. We need more self-media creators to participate. This news should be considered very important.” Good publicity.”
Dong Wenhao thought for a long time: “We take care of everything for the creator. In this way, bad things become good things?”