Bi Shumin, a famous writer, recently took Huaibei Experimental Middle School to court. Bi Shumin's attorney said that Huaibei Experimental High School made one of Bi Shumin's representative works, Red Prescription, into a PDF version for all netizens to download and read without authorization, which infringed on the author's legitimate rights and interests, so Bi Shumin demanded to stop the infringement and compensate the economic losses.
In May this year, Bi Shumin, a famous writer, received a phone call from a friend, saying that Huaibei Experimental High School had spread its TXT novel on the Internet and downloaded the Red Prescription. However, Bi Shumin did not authorize Huaibei Experimental High School, and Bi Shumin believed that the school had violated her legitimate rights and interests. In June, notarized by a notary, the plaintiff fixed the evidence of infringement and filed a lawsuit with Huaibei Intermediate People's Court. At present, Huaibei Intermediate People's Court has accepted the case.
Bi Shumin's attorney, Yang Jun, said that the website published the book "Red Prescription" for online users to read and download without the permission of plaintiff Bi Shumin, which seriously violated the plaintiff's legitimate rights and interests and caused certain losses to the plaintiff. The defendant should bear legal responsibility for the above-mentioned infringement, and the plaintiff requested the court to order the defendant to stop the infringement immediately and compensate the plaintiff for economic losses.
The reporter learned that the Regulations on the Protection of Information Network Communication Right, which came into effect on July 1 2006, stipulates that a small number of published works by others can be provided to a small number of teaching and scientific researchers through the information network for school classroom teaching or scientific research, without the permission of the copyright owner. However, public communication requires the consent of the copyright owner and the payment of fees to the copyright owner. According to Yang Jun, Huaibei Experimental High School has not set any restrictions on Bi Shumin's works. Not only students can log in and download, but ordinary netizens can also browse. Therefore, it is considered that the school has publicly disseminated the works.
Yesterday, the reporter logged into the website of Huaibei Experimental High School and entered the "online electronic library", but did not find the "red prescription". According to Yang Jun, she went to this website in mid-June, and people still downloaded and read The Red Prescription. At the same time, the reporter found that the school's electronic library has a detailed classification, including eight categories: tool counseling, management teaching, extracurricular reading, and social science. In literature and history alone, there are 3,700 books such as Zheng, Fairy Tales and Aesop's Fables. The reporter once called Huaibei Experimental High School Network Center. A staff member surnamed Zhou told reporters that some of these e-books were purchased and some were downloaded from the Internet. When the reporter asked which department was responsible for the types and quantities of these digital books uploaded, he replied "I don't know". Subsequently, the reporter contacted the principal of the school, but when the reporter had just finished the words Bi Shumin and Red Prescription, President Ji told the reporter, "I don't know about this, I'm in a meeting" and hung up.
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I don't need to say it.
I mean, it's definitely illegal, but piracy is very common in China now. This kind of communication can publicize the author in disguise, and no one will object.