Sina Technology News, evening news on December 30th, Sohu announced the "Sohu Weibo Copyright Protection Covenant" at the Sohu Weibo User Annual Meeting held today. It will implement a Weibo author contract system starting from January 1st of the late year 2012, providing exclusive Weibo customer service for contracted authors.
4. Sohu Weibo will implement the Weibo author contract system starting from January 1, 2012, providing exclusive Weibo customer service to contracted authors and entrusting a professional legal team to provide rights protection support for copyright infringement actions against contracted authors. At the same time, it supports and promotes books, videos, and other derivative cultural products published based on Weibo content by authors.
5. When forwarding the Weibo content of contracted authors within the Sohu Weibo system, the operation must be done through the original author's Weibo forward button. For publication outside the Sohu Weibo system, the real-name rights of the original author must be respected, and the content must be used according to an authorization method that meets the author's requirements.
6. The recognition and protection of original Weibo copyrights are not new phenomena. Sohu Weibo is willing to explore with the industry and authors continuously and make efforts to practice. Sohu Weibo is committed to providing a fair writing environment and labor rewards to more authors who engage in Weibo original creation under their real identities in the future.
3. Sohu Weibo will establish an effective copyright protection system and introduce reasonable standards during the process of Weibo writing and dissemination, guiding Weibo users to gradually establish copyright awareness, standardize dissemination behavior, and form a network environment and industry standard that respects copyrights.
It is reported that Sohu will entrust a professional legal team to provide rights protection support for copyright infringement actions against contracted authors and simultaneously support and promote books, videos, and other derivative cultural products published based on Weibo content by authors.
The convention stipulates that when reposting the Weibo content of contracted authors within the Sohu Weibo system, the operation must be done through the original author's Weibo forward button. For publications outside the Sohu Weibo system, the signature rights of the original author must be respected, and the content must be used according to an authorization method that meets the author's requirements.
8. Sohu Weibo will take copyright protection as an opportunity to re-establish Weibo dissemination norms, establish Weibo content credibility, improve the quality of Weibo dissemination, explore new industry rules, and continuously promote the sustainable development of Weibo in the People's Republic of China.
Sohu stated that it will not provide "equal rights and responsibilities" quiet returns to authors who engage in Weibo original creation under virtual identities.
7. Contracted authors are important actors in this covenant and will work together with Sohu Weibo to promote Weibo copyright protection.
1. Sohu Weibo recognizes and promotes the content copyright of original Weibo authors. We believe that original texts, images, videos, audios, etc., presented in Weibo format legally enjoy copyrights and should not have their rights infringed upon in any way in both online dissemination and traditional publishing channels.
2. Weibo copyrights fall within the scope of online copyrights and are protected by the current intellectual property legal system, including the "Chinese Copyright Law" and the "Regulations on the Protection of Information Network Dissemination Rights."
This concludes the full text of the "Sohu Weibo Copyright Protection Covenant."