" I am not the God of Medicine " is a movie that everyone should be familiar with.
Four years ago, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was played in cinemas and aroused unanimous praise from the audience.
was released on July 5, 2018, starring Xu Zheng, Wang Chuanjun, Zhou Yiwei and . After its release, the box office reached 3.1 billion.
I can still remember that scene. Many people in the cinema were moved to tears.
The story of this movie mainly tells the story of a small boss (played by Xu Zheng) who went to India to buy medicine in order to save the people around him, and used the medicine to save many leukemia patients around him.
However, the drugs used to save people were all smuggled from India, which violated the country's laws and eventually sent him to prison.
In this film, because there is a plot of dealing with Indians , a picture of an Indian building was used in the scene, which only lasted for 2 seconds, so the person who took the picture was sued for infringement. Beijing Bad Monkey Cultural Industry Development Co., Ltd., the distributor of the
film, was sued.
Why is a photo considered infringing?
Photographer Zhang appealed that the film infringed on his own photography, which he took while traveling to India. He used his own work without permission, so he filed an appeal against the film.
This photo is a photo of New Delhi, India, taken by Zhang. It is undoubtedly a picture that the crew collected online.
In this background of only two seconds, there are several photos together, and this photo occupies a very small part of the shot. After
was sued for infringement by Zhang, the court accepted the case. The public judgment on July 5 showed that the final judgment found that his film did infringe, and ordered him to stop the infringement involved in the case and compensate Zhang for his economic losses.
The court ordered the film company to compensate Zhang 20,000 yuan! Twenty thousand yuan is not much, but should I sue for this infringement?
In fact, in our lives, whether we are making movies or posting to Moments, many materials are taken from the Internet, because the Internet is also an important place to search for pictures. Various browsers can search for the pictures you want and then to use. The pictures searched by
on the Internet platform are generally non-infringing. Portrait rights cannot be used casually, but scenery pictures should be used casually.
The reason why the search platform exists is to help everyone find the pictures they need. If everyone uses it, it is infringement, then there is no need for the search platform to exist. Because
has no meaning, no one dares to use pictures. The movie
uses an online photo of New Delhi, India. Many people think it is infringing, but many people think it is not.
Objectively speaking, the movie is profitable. The reason why Zhang sued for infringement was because the movie turned this picture into a commercial use.
However, a movie lasts a long time, and it is normal to shoot scenes online. It is impossible for every part to be original. Besides, the picture only has two seconds of footage.
There is nothing right or wrong in Zhang Mou’s prosecution, but the pattern is really small.
Although the compensation awarded to the plaintiff Zhang was not more than 20,000 yuan, the plaintiff requested much more than this in the lawsuit.
Plaintiff's Indictment
Many people asked the film company to delete the two seconds of the picture of New Delhi, India in the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine", saying that they didn't notice the building while watching the movie plot, and deleting it would not affect the viewing.
It can be seen that everyone feels that Zhang’s prosecution behavior is really excessive.
This drama brings positive energy to everyone and does not harm the photographer's own rights and interests. After the
photographer sued, the court ordered the film and television company to compensate Zhang for economic losses of 20,000 yuan, while Zhang’s initial request was to compensate himself for 480,000 yuan.
How is economic loss defined? It was just a scenery photo taken by Zhang. How could Zhang suffer financial losses?
After this incident, major film and television companies must be more careful when releasing movies in the future, because this is not the first time that a movie or TV series has been sued for using Internet materials.
What do you think about this matter?
Do you think there is any infringement in this movie?
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