Beijing Internet Court’s Judgment Criteria for Trial of Video Infringement Cases

Confirm the copyright ownership of the work and safeguard the rights and interests of the video creator

• Video works created by professional institutions or teams are often marked with relatively sufficient signature information, which can be identified as signature information indicating the identity of the producer.
• For works that are not marked with information about the creator, generally speaking, the account owner who first posted the video is the rights holder.

Accurately define video infringement to guide creators to enhance their awareness of intellectual property protection

• Use other people’s work without permission
• Use other people's music as background music
• Use partial expressions of long videos in the form of excerpts
• Editing the core content of a long video into a short video can essentially replace the long video content

Accurately determine the amount of damages and effectively compensate for the rights holder’s losses

• If the main content of a long video is provided in the form of a large number of clips, compensation can be determined using the long video compensation standard.
• The platform failed to take reasonable measures, causing the infringing video to continue to be widely disseminated during the popular period of the film and television drama, and should bear part of the liability for compensation.