Taiwanese female writer San Mao's survivors sued Mainland China for program infringement and won more than 60,000 yuan
China News Agency, Beijing, June 5th (Reporter Yu Lixiao) On the 5th, the Beijing Internet Court publicly sentenced the case of using the Taiwanese writer San Mao’s father’s family book without permission without permission. The program infringes on the right to modify, copy, perform, and information network transmission of the letters involved in the case, and compensates a total of 63,000 yuan in economic losses.
The program "See the Words as Faces" restores the life story and social scene behind each letter to the audience in the form of star guest reading letters and scholar guest comments. In the second season of the show, guests were invited to read a letter from the writer Sanmao's father to Sanmao "past·now·future".
San Mao’s survivors and Chen’s third sister complained that after the death of San Mao and his parents, the third sister inherited the copyright of the letter written by San Mao’s father to San Mao according to law, and the letter is still under copyright protection. The program "Seeing Words and Faces" unauthorized text modification, deletion, sentence exchange, and organized actors to read and record the correspondence, infringing on the right to modify, copy, perform, and The right to disseminate information networks.
The three younger brothers of the Chen family will use the co-producers of the second season of the above-mentioned letters of "See the Word as Face to Face": Beijing Strength Telefax Culture Development Co., Ltd., Shanghai Tencent Penguin Film and Television Culture Communication Co., Ltd., and Heilongjiang Radio and Television to the court. It is required to publish a statement to apologize, eliminate the impact, and compensate for economic losses, mental damages, consolation and reasonable expenses totaling more than 110,000 yuan.
The court held that the program involved in the case without permission reproduced the substance of the letter in question by reading aloud, which will inevitably have an impact on the plaintiff's authorization for others to use the letter in question in a similar manner. The program involved in the case uses the letters in question to modify the letters in question, which not only affects the plaintiff’s economic benefits, but also infringes on the right to modify the letters in question, which includes the rights of the author’s personality, resulting in damage to the legitimate rights and interests of the copyright owner.
The court also held that the use of the letters in the program involved in the case was not for the purpose of introduction, comment, or explanation, but also exceeded the necessary limit for proper citation, which affected the normal use of the letters in the case and damaged the legitimate rights and interests of the copyright owner, which was not reasonable use. Therefore, the court made the above judgment. (Finish)