On May 9, chen Wan, a well-known writer and screenwriter, published a long article on Weibo, publicly accusing CNKI of privately including more than a million words of his novel without his permission, which once again triggered public discussion about CNKI's infringement.
Chen Gradually posted that since 2008, he has serialized the novel "Emperor Century" in the magazine "Flying Fantasy World", a total of 15 issues, about one million words, until the recent CNKI frequently fell into the storm of public opinion, only to accidentally learn that his novel was not authorized, from 2009 it has been included in CNKI's copyright database for people to browse and download.
At the same time, Chen Wei, who used to work in the magazine company, also gave the public a look at why CNKI's practice has not been questioned for a long time, he said that people often think that the author publishes his article in the magazine, if the third party and the magazine have a cooperation agreement, the article is reasonable to download and read at a third party's expense, this idea is actually a misunderstanding, according to the provisions of the Copyright Law, if the magazine wants to authorize a third party, it should also obtain another authorization from the author, CNKI exploited this loophole.
Writer Chen Wan
Shortly after Chen gradually publicly complained about CNKI, many fellow writers and screenwriters also went to CNKI to search, and many people even found that their works were privately included in CNKI without authorization, novelist Wang Qingchuan said that his novels "Royal Heavenly Sword" and "Wild Goose Flying Moon Heaven" were privately included by CNKI, martial arts writer Li Liang also found that his works "Anti-Bone Boy" and "Tomb Law Tomb Heaven" were privately included, and writer Liu Yinxi was surprised to say that "I always thought that CNKI's use of my articles was legal". Nian Heng, a member of the HeilongJia Provincial Writers Association, also said that he had also searched for nearly a hundred of his articles on the Knowledge Network. Under Chen Wan's Microblog, many people expressed dissatisfaction and anger at CNKI's behavior of privately including articles, and Chen Gradually said that "the world has been suffering for a long time." In this regard, CNKI has not seen a reply.
Recently, the public opinion storm around "CNKI infringement" is a wave of unsustainable waves, according to the enterprise investigation, all the infringement cases of CNKI have now exceeded 2,000, and the China Judgment Document Network has now published more than 600 civil judgments related to it, including copyright disputes with scholars Zhou Xiuluan and Beijing Chaoxing Information Technology. Not long ago, the agent of the operator of CNKI said that if they were compensated according to the previous standard of 200/thousand words of Professor Zhao Dexin, CNKI would compensate about 120 billion yuan for the works in the library, and this "complaint" also triggered discussion among netizens.
Not only are the major universities dissatisfied with the high fees charged by CNKI, the students of various colleges and universities are complaining, it is the graduation season of colleges and universities, the students of various colleges and universities have completed their graduation thesis, entered the thesis check and defense link, although most schools will provide students with an opportunity to check the weight of CNKI, but because of the weight check rate relationship can successfully participate in the defense, so for the sake of insurance, most students will buy CNKI check the opportunity, buy a time from two or three hundred to seven or eight hundred yuan, the commission is not a small only out." When you make money from other people's articles, you don't say a word, and when you want to collect money, you come out and cry poor. ”
Zhao Dexin, Zhou Xiuluan, etc. are all very influential scholars in the academic community, and the road to infringement and compensation is still so arduous, and it is even more difficult for more ordinary people to maintain their copyrights. The platform for the purpose of academic resource exchange and sharing has become the biggest stumbling block for academic exchanges.
Yangzi Evening News | Purple Cow News reporter Shen Zhao