Whiplash March 31 news, yesterday evening, Douban posted on its official Weibo that the company has sued the operator of Weibo, Beijing Weimeng Chuangke Network Technology Co., Ltd. The claims include: Weibo immediately stop the infringement, including but not limited to deleting the infringing link, stopping the recruitment of the "Super Talk Rising Star Program", publicly apologizing, and claiming 1 yuan.
It is understood that the incident originated on March 30, Weibo's super talk community posted that the "super talk nova plan" is recruiting super talk administrators, requiring applicants to have the identity of relevant community administrators and manage more than 500 people in the network community. The accompanying picture of this Weibo lists the names of multiple Douban groups, such as sunset enthusiasts and weird problem research centers.
In addition, the leader of the Douban group reported that he received a private message from the Weibo super talk community, inviting her to serve as a super talk administrator.
In the civil complaint, Douban stated that Weibo used multiple Douban group names without authorization, and at the same time recruited people with Douban group management experience to the Weibo platform to establish a "super talk community and copy the Douban group name creativity" similar to the "Douban group"; and allowed its platform users to use a large amount of Douban group data information and allowed its platform users to use the plaintiff's trademark.
Douban believes that it has legitimate rights and interests in the data on Douban, including the Douban group. Douban also enjoys the exclusive right to use the trademark of "Douban Group". Weibo's unauthorized use of the group names of multiple Douban groups, while recruiting people with experience in douban group management to establish a super-talk community similar in nature to the Douban group, is an infringement.
In response, Weibo spokesperson Guan Wei responded, "The supernova plan carried out by Weibo Super Talk is not aimed at a certain platform, belongs to the scope of normal business operations, and there is no unfair competition and plagiarism at all." ”
According to the screenshots posted by Douban, the current case of Douban v. Weibo unfair competition dispute is still in a state of "pending review".