The announcement stated that Toutiao’s infringement of Sohu News was due to the immaturity of the backend review mechanism and was its own responsibility. For this reason, Toutiao will bear all fines for the infringing college students.
In order to avoid the recurrence of infringement incidents, Toutiao will also impose a fine of 100 to 500 on these college students as a form of punishment.
In addition, they will provide 3 million yuan in originality incentives to support original authors.
What followed closely was Dong Wenhao’s carefully shot apology video of the infringing college students.
The whole video showed two words, sincerity, and a little girl even cried, saying that she had a weak legal awareness, but she really had no subjective intention to plagiarize.
He also thanked Toutiao for its help, saying that he is a poor college student and would like to thank Toutiao for the part-time opportunity.
“The article involved infringement, Toutiao took the initiative to bear the fine for the college students involved”
Soon, Toutiao’s pop-up articles followed, and a large number of paid trolls also began to forward them with one click.
As soon as the news was sent out, it immediately caused a heated discussion in the circle of creators.
Over the years, many content platforms have had infringement issues, and they have always blamed the creators, or they have directly blocked the relevant authors and settled the matter.
This is the first time they have seen a platform take the initiative to pay fines for creators. They resisted a fine of 350,000, and only asked the college students to compensate between 1 and 500.
Damn it, Bodhisattva started a business?
Sohu News, on the other hand, was so angry that it immediately stopped, accusing Toutiao of shielding the infringers and encouraging the unhealthy trend of infringement.
Tonight’s Toutiao once again expressed its position: “They work hard to write articles in their spare time, but they only earn 10,000 to 20,000 on our platform. The compensation of 350,000 is unreasonable. There are thousands of mistakes, which are all caused by our lax review mechanism.”
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Toutiao’s response to the infringement incident quickly became a hot search topic.
But there is another entry, which does not contain the words “Toutiao Tonight”, but is highly related to them.
This entry is called [Only earned 10,000 or 20,000 yuan].
The main purpose of the netizens was to make fun of me, but when they saw this entry, they immediately became uneasy.
what happened?
You can earn a fucking ten or twenty thousand by writing manuscripts in your spare time?
So the popularity soared again.
“Tonight Toutiao, like Zhihu, is a work-study program.”
“We provide a creative platform for college students in the hope that they can earn royalties through their own efforts and continue their studies.”