CATDOLL: The animation "Slam Dunk" won the first domestic anti-piracy lawsuit in the history of Japanese comics copyright protection

As a classic work of anime, "Slam Dunk" has a profound influence in the ACG circle. On April 25, Sohu Video announced at the World Intellectual Property Day that a video website had illegally broadcast the Japanese anime "Slam Dunk" for which Sohu Video had exclusive information network transmission rights, and the Beijing Haidian District People's Court ruled in favor of the first instance. This is the first case against Japanese anime that Sohu Video has won since launching a special action to protect rights against Japanese anime at the end of 2014, and it is also the first case of a Japanese anime protection case in the industry. It is understood that the defendant in the case is Fengxing.com, a subsidiary of BesTV.

It is reported that since Sohu Video launched a special rights protection action against Japanese anime, it has continued to carry out anti-piracy actions through monitoring, sending letters, telephone communication, and cooperating with administrative complaints and civil lawsuits. After 4 months of continuous action, the number of infringing links that use Sohu Video's exclusive Japanese anime works has dropped from more than 7,000 at the beginning of the year to more than 800 at present.

In December last year, Sohu Video filed a lawsuit against some websites for infringing the information network dissemination rights of the works by broadcasting the Japanese anime "Slam Dunk" on their websites without permission. Sohu Video has preserved evidence for the illegal broadcasting of Japanese anime exclusively on Sohu Video, and notarized hundreds of anime works, involving more than a dozen infringing websites. Due to the complex copyright situation of Japanese anime works, it is difficult to obtain evidence abroad, and few rights holders have initiated rights protection lawsuits for Japanese anime. Therefore, many websites still wantonly broadcast them even though they know that they are infringing. Sohu Video conducted special research on this, collected and sorted out relevant evidence at home and abroad, and launched large-scale rights protection for the first time. With the victory of the first case of rights protection of Japanese anime works, Sohu Video said that it will further adopt various measures, including litigation, to consolidate the results of the rights protection of Japanese anime works for websites that have not been offline for a long time or have repeatedly infringed.