April 12, 2021

On the evening of April 9, 2021, 53 film and television companies, five video platforms and 15 film and television industry associations issued a joint statement, announcing that they will launch a collective and necessary legal action against unauthorized editing, slicing, moving and spreading of the content of film and television works online. At the same time, the statement called on producers and operators of short video platforms and public accounts to raise awareness of copyright, and called on all sectors of society to report, delete and block infringing content, so as to form a good industry ecology of "authorization before use".

The joint statement sponsors include midday sun, co-sponsored by the film and television, twist of the film and television, CiWen media, new media, Shanghai yaojiang guest well-known film and television company, such as iQIYI, tencent video, youku, mango TV, Migu video platforms such as video and TV art exchange association, the China China's TV series production industry association, film and television industry association, etc.

In particular, the statement highlighted unauthorized re-creation of video content in the short video sector. One of the "key objects" of copyright protection is in the field of short videos and the other is in the secondary creation of film and television works, which makes Douyin, B website and Kuaishou, which focus on the secondary creation of film and television works, come to the center of the topic again.

Source: jiemian News