Station B sued Station D for illegally playing "Pandora of the Heavy God Machine" and was compensated 1.5 million

On November 10, the China Judgment Documents Network published the first-instance civil judgments of Shanghai Phantom Electric Information Technology Co., Ltd. and Fuzhou Dili Technology Co., Ltd. in civil disputes over copyright ownership and infringement. The trial court is the Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Court.

The plaintiff, Phantom Power, claimed that the defendants, Didi Company, Bondage Company, and Tianxia Peerless Company, without the authorization of the plaintiff, illegally provided online playback and download services for the work involved in the case, "Pandora the Heavy God Machine", on the Dili software and D station jointly operated by the plaintiff, and maliciously erased the plaintiff's signature. The defendant, Dili, argued that it recognized the plaintiff's allegation that it provided online broadcast services for the works involved in the case, but did not provide download services; the works involved in the case came from the Internet, and Dili did not take the initiative to eliminate the plaintiff's signature.

After ascertaining, the court held that the allegedly infringing website and mobile phone software jointly operated by the three defendants provided online broadcasting and downloading services for most of the episodes of the work involved in the case, "Pandora the Heavy God Machine", and the content played was the same as the work of the plaintiff's copyright, and some of the episodes of the work involved in the case were erased from the plaintiff's signature during playback, and the acts of the three defendants infringed the plaintiff's right to information network dissemination and the right of attribution of the work involved in the case, and should jointly bear the corresponding civil liability.

Accordingly, on December 13, 2019, the Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Court rendered a judgment: the three defendants jointly compensated the plaintiff for economic losses of 1.5 million yuan and reasonable expenses of more than 298,000 yuan.