Rebirth: War on the Honest

"So your opinion is, no matter how we deal with it next, let's publish a short composition first?"

Cheng Yingying laughed dumbly.

This approach can’t help but disappoint a lady in the entertainment industry who originally expected professional legal services.

Who doesn’t know how to post a short composition?

We are the professionals in this regard, right?

Having been in the industry for such a long time, Cheng Yingying has seen countless rivals.

Even young trainees who don’t have a lot of talent often have disagreements due to uneven resources.

Among the boys and girls who can give up studying at a young age and come to pursue their dreams in the entertainment industry, who doesn’t have a few fans?

Therefore, Cheng Yingying not only saw it with her own eyes, but also had to mediate it several times when posting on Weibo or Moments on public social platforms.

I have read so many short compositions that I have become accustomed to this kind of thing.

Why do lawyers do this?

"Yes, our Leying Law Firm is professional in helping companies draft statements."

Zhong Leyi nodded and looked at Cheng Yingying who looked confused with a smile, her eyes full of confidence.

"Then let's discuss how to post it."

Cheng Yingying handed the two printed materials to Zhong Leyi and Wang Xiaohong respectively, waiting for more professional wording to appear.

Three days later, it's ten o'clock in the morning on Monday.

Most people in the workplace have just started work. After working for a while, it is time to get up to fish or pour water and go to the toilet with pay.

"Holy shit!"

"Look at the statement posted by Paradise Cloud Music on Weibo!"

"It's also posted on the app! It's such a long and professional article."

The power of public communication cannot be underestimated. A blockbuster statement issued by Paradise Cloud Music is like a big stone suddenly dropped on a calm lake.

“Even if we all admit that unfair competition occurs from time to time in business, there are few fields where unfair competition has prevented any growth like domestic online music.

For a long time, Penguin Music Entertainment Group (including QQ Music, Kuwo Music, Kugou Music, National Karaoke and other products) has illegally broadcast unlicensed songs, mass-produced fake songs, and copied our product innovations.

Infringement of our copyright by evading or even resisting supervision constitutes unfair competition. Its main behaviors include:

1. Malicious infringement of copyright and suspected resistance to rectification

1. QQ Music pirates our works through the "regional playback" function

QQ Music, a subsidiary of Penguin Music Entertainment Group, has repeatedly listed our popular works without authorization.

After we filed for rights protection, QQ Music targeted and removed relevant works only in our daily monitoring areas of Beijing, Shanghai, Hangcheng, Huacheng and other areas.

However, in other areas where our monitoring and rights protection capabilities are weak, we still continue to broadcast illegally and secretly, deliberately avoiding our rights protection.

From the perspective of different provincial-level regions, QQ Music cannot play songs to which Paradise Cloud Music has rights in Beijing, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province and other places.

However, it can be played in provinces and cities outside the above-mentioned areas, such as the Tianjin-Hebei region, Quancheng in Shandong Province, and Chang'an in northern Shaanxi.

From the same provincial level, taking Zhejiang Province as an example, when QQ Music cannot play the songs to which Paradise Cloud Music has rights in Hangzhou, in all ten other prefecture-level cities in Zhejiang Province, such as Shaoxing, Huzhou, and Jiaxing,

In Ningbo, Zhoushan, etc., there are illegal acts of secretly playing the songs involved in the case.

The same song QQ Music was offline in Hangzhou, but it can still be played and downloaded in other cities in Zhejiang Province.

The number of infringing works pirated by QQ Music in different regions is huge, and they are all popular songs of the Paradise Cloud Music Platform, such as "Nanshan Nan" (Ma Youye), "Inflammable and Explosive" (Chen Li), "Next Stop"

Chashan Liu》The landlord’s cat, etc.

QQ Music-related actions infringe copyright and seriously violate business ethics, integrity principles and industry standards; they are also suspected of using technical means to carry out differentiated rectifications for different regions to circumvent and resist supervision.

The relevant behavior ignores laws, regulations and business ethics, and is obviously subjective and malicious.

2. QQ Music secretly plays our works through the "Import external playlist" function

For unlicensed songs, QQ Music has developed a function to copy the link to its platform's playlist and then import it, so that the songs that are grayed out and cannot be played in the original playlist can be replayed and downloaded.

Take the popular song "Nanshan Nan" (Mayu page) as an example. The search on the QQ Music site shows "no audio source".

However, after copying the song list link and importing it, the song can be played and downloaded.

QQ Music pirates non-copyrighted works through "importing external playlists"

Such piecemeal and sneaky behavior not only damages the rights and interests of musicians and infringes on our copyright, but also destroys the fragile mutual trust between the industries.

3. Penguin Music mass-produces unlicensed popular songs and maliciously intercepts them

For a long time, Penguin Music's QQ Music, Kugou Music, and Kuwo Music have produced a large number of fake and laundered works for unauthorized works, misleading users to play them.

Since 2013 alone, Penguin Music has released a large number of counterfeit songs of the same name for our popular songs, of which nearly a thousand songs have the same or similar chorus parts as the original songs.

For example, after "Inflammable and Explosive" launched by Yuanyuan Music Cloud Studio and Yuanyuan Entertainment Co., Ltd. became popular, a large number of songs with the same name and different lyrics and music appeared on QQ Music and Kugou Music.

Such as "Flammable and Explosive" (official version), "Flammable and Explosive" (DJ version), "Fireworks Explosive" (original song) and "Flammable and Explosive, Beware of Fire Candles" (Doule Hot Search Smoke Voice Version)

etc., and appeared on the latter's official list.

Only the songs under the names of independent musicians such as May Youye, Chen Li, and Landlady’s Cat involve thousands of counterfeit and plagiarized songs of the same name.

Even the names of the singers of some of the fake songs are "high imitations" of the original singers.

For example, a product under Penguin Music Entertainment Group used "Cats from Qiaobei" to impersonate the musician group "Landlord's Cats" and illegally listed related works.

This is used to mislead users to click to listen and use the popularity to deceive traffic.

If users want to hear "the landlord's cat", then let them hear "the landlord's cat" instead of "the cat at the door", "the cat on the eaves", "the cat in Qiaobei"... Please don't

Listening to a song is like doing an analysis of similar shapes and words.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! What’s more, some companies under Penguin Music Entertainment Group have purposefully and organizedly participated in the song-washing industry chain.

Since the middle of the year, whenever a hit song is released on Paradise Cloud Music, Penguin Music's three products will not only directly pirate the original song, but will also go to great lengths to launch a large number of crudely produced songs of the same name within a day or two.

For example, the "We Can Be Heroes" special project album premiered on "Operation Mekong" on October 1, 2013, is the first series of main theme songs.

On the day of release, all content was illegally posted online by Penguin Music, and similar sound sources, MVs and screen recording videos appeared on QQ Music.

Penguin Music illegally uploads the works of the Paradise Cloud Music Project. It is increasingly rampant in laundering songs and spreading unlicensed works under false names. It is like "psoriasis" following the content production of our company, which is extremely bad in nature.

In addition, Penguin Music Entertainment Group also invests in related companies to follow popular songs, wash songs in batches under their names, and provide traffic tilt, deepening vicious plagiarism in the industry and promoting the scale of the song washing industry.

2. Long-term plagiarism of Paradise Cloud Music’s visual design, product functions, innovative mechanisms, etc.

1. QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music plagiarized Paradise Cloud Music vinyl playback page design

Since its official launch in 2012, the unique vinyl playback interface has been the core design of Paradise Cloud Music products, and relevant design patents have been registered, creating extremely high visibility, recognition and influence among the public.

In early 2013, Penguin Music-related products updated the playback interface, adding a new vinyl interface design, which is very similar to the vinyl playback interface of Paradise Cloud Music.

Attached picture: Comparison of the interfaces of Paradise Cloud Music App (left) and QQ Music HD (right).

2. Kugou Music and QQ Music copied the "listen together" function of Paradise Cloud Music

In February 2013, Paradise Cloud Music officially launched the "Listen Together" function on Valentine's Day to facilitate couples to better use and enjoy cloud music.

Thanks to the community atmosphere and unique interactive experience of Yuncun, "Listen Together" has quickly become a unique feature that is widely praised by the industry and popular with users.

In July 2013, Kugou Music launched the "Listen Along" function. Its function settings and page interaction design can be called a pixel-level plagiarism paradise cloud music "listen together".

Attached picture: Comparison of "Listen Together" of Paradise Cloud Music and "Listen Along" of Kugou Music.

In August 2013, QQ Music updated the "Music Room·Listen Together" function, and the function was named "Listen Together" to Paradise Cloud Music.

In September of the same year, the latest version of QQ Music directly renamed the "Music Room" to the "Listen Together" function, and the UI design for invitations, listening to songs, etc. was also more similar, completing everything from name to function in one fell swoop. .

3. Kugou Music plagiarized the function settings and interface design of "Yunbeitui Ge" of Paradise Cloud Music

In April 2013, the new version of Paradise Cloud Music launched the "Yunbei Song Push" function to support users in promoting their favorite songs.

Three months later, Kugou Music also followed suit and launched the "Music Push" function, once again copying us at the pixel level in terms of function settings and interface design.

Evidence: Kugou Music’s “Music Push” function plagiarized NetEase Cloud Music’s “Yunbei Push Song”

All in all, Penguin Music Entertainment Group has been engaging in unfair competition against Paradise Cloud Music and the entire online music industry for many years. It is long-lasting, wide-ranging, has various means, and has tragic consequences. It has become more and more serious in the past two years.

If we had not been intruded intolerably by this long-term unfair competition and suffered such irreversible harm, we would never have rashly made the scandalous behavior in our industry public.

According to the "Anti-Unfair Competition Law of the People's Republic of China", "Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China" and other relevant laws and regulations, Paradise Cloud Music has filed a lawsuit against me regarding Penguin Music Entertainment Group (including QQ Music, Kuwo Music, Kugou Music and other products).

A formal lawsuit was filed for some of the unfair competition behaviors of the other party.

We urge Penguin Music Entertainment Group to immediately rectify its products and businesses and stop all unfair competition practices:

1. Immediately stop infringing activities, including but not limited to removing infringing works, stopping impersonation of songs, and rectifying related infringing functions;

2. Immediately stop unscrupulous unfair competition and engage in healthy competition from the perspective of enhancing content creation and user experience;

3. Immediately investigate the violations of laws and regulations in each business, and recommend business ethics training for all employees, strengthen self-discipline awareness, and conduct ethical corrections in a timely manner.

Here, we once again call on practitioners in the industry to respect the achievements of others and focus more on improving industry services, user experience and product innovation.

The domestic online music industry is littered with corpses. At this difficult time, we should not focus on evil ways."

Paradise Cloud Music

October 25, 2013

One stone stirs up thousands of waves.

This lengthy article, written in exquisite detail and bursting with excitement, immediately caused an uproar on the Internet.

Except for the boss in red of 360 Zhou who fought hard to the end, no one has ever confronted Penguin head-on, let alone posted such a long article, which is well-founded and convincing.

The first thing the bystanders did was to forward it to their good friends, come over and eat it first, and then join the team.

"The copyright dispute is actually a dispute between users. However, for most consumers, what they care about is not who imitated whom, but which song is really good and which payment model is more reasonable."

"After all, Penguin is the leader in the industry. Will it copy the functions of a small music software? I advise netizens not to rush to conclusions and take sides. Let's wait and see Penguin's reply."

"Is there anyone who still uses Penguin? Isn't it a music legacy? If you were a user of Paradise Cloud Music, you wouldn't say that Penguin doesn't plagiarize."

"I agree with the point above. Penguin doesn't have any high-quality original content at all. Except for the sound quality of the songs, which are just okay, various small services basically copy Paradise Cloud Music."

"But Paradise Cloud Music also has disadvantages. The price for singles on the platform is too high. Members have to pay extra for some albums after monthly subscription. Damn it."

"At first glance, it looks like a real brother. I thought so too."

There is a lot of discussion about the war between penguins and Paradise Cloud Music. There are all kinds of opinions, all kinds of strange and strange.

A whole morning has passed, and there is still no response from Penguin. The forwarding and views continue to ferment. This time Paradise Cloud Music faces Gang, which reminds countless netizens of the era when they had to choose between 360 and Penguin.

There’s a lot of quarrel among music apps, but what happens next?

It won’t be the end where we have to choose one from the other, right?

With you and without me, with me and without you?

Someone made a statistics a long time ago. Among music enthusiasts, they counted how many music apps they have downloaded on their mobile phones.

There is no suspense that many people will choose to jump between two or three music apps repeatedly.

Several major products of Penguin Music and Paradise Cloud Music are firmly in the top spots.

The copyright dispute has lasted for many years, and listeners had no choice but to compromise for their favorite singers, or recharge their memberships on both platforms.

"Let's get together. We are noisy and noisy. I really don't want to switch apps back and forth."