On Wednesday, the China Netcasting Services Association released a document entitled "Detailed Rules of Online Short Video Auditing Standards," which is a revised version of a previous edition published in 2019.
On November 25, the Beijing Internet Court made a first-instance judgment on the Youku v. Kuaishou case regarding infringement of a TV series "Skate Into Love." Youku won the case and was compensated 460,000 yuan ($72,193).
Tencent has sent an email to ByteDance's Douyin on November 11, saying that the firm was trialling a project to gradually allow third-party creators to use some of its copyrighted content and creation tools in their works.
Tencent Video is taking Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, to court for allowing its users to upload clips from the internet giant’s hit TV series Crime Crackdown and airing them without authorization. The court accepted the case on Tuesday.