As one of the largest game live broadcast platforms at present, Huya Live has the live broadcast rights for multiple e-sports events.
Earlier, Huya won the copyrights of two major competitions, LCS (North American Division) and LEC (European Division). In addition, it has obtained the copyrights of the LPL and LCK, and has become the earliest live broadcast platform to own the live broadcast rights of the four major leagues.
For game live broadcast platforms, winning the live broadcast copyright of popular events can effectively utilize resources to achieve complementary resources. For the copyright of e-sports events, major platforms are striving to compete.
In 2019, Huya reached in-depth cooperation with ESL (Electronic Sports League) e-sports league, and obtained exclusive broadcast rights for the multi-station CS:GO competition and DOTA2 competition held by ESL. It plans to hold "CS:GO", "DOTA2", "Overwatch" and other competitions with ESL.
Recently, Huya Live sued Douyu live broadcast platform to steal the Huya ESL e-sports event judgment.
Its live broadcast content uses . The ESL PRO LEAGUE Season 11 event screen infringes on copyright , and the unfair competition dispute case has ended, and was sentenced to compensation of 1 million yuan by the court.
It is reported that in February 2020, Huya reached a strategic cooperation with ESL and obtained the Chinese live broadcast rights for the 11th season of ESL events such as IEM Katowice 2020.
On February 24 of the same year, Douyu was broadcasting the IEM series without authorization without authorization, and Huya issued a written warning to him. After
, Douyu did not stop infringement. On March 17, 2020, Huya sent another letter to warn, but Douyu did not stop the related infringement live broadcast.
The final judgment Douyu will compensate Huya for economic losses of 1 million yuan and unreasonable expenses of 60,178.4 yuan within ten days from the date of the legal effect of the judgment.
and Douyu's infringement lasted for the entire season, involving 32 EPL events. After Huya complained many times, Douyu did not take immediate and effective blocking measures against the infringing room or the anchor.
For this event, Huya said that it spent a lot of money to obtain live broadcast authorization, and also spent corresponding manpower and publicity costs. Douyu's behavior is the " free-ride " behavior.
During the event, many anchors on Douyu Live platform live broadcast the content of the event, and diverted Huya authorized events to occupy market share.
Some netizens said that the copyright era supports Huya to protect its legitimate rights and interests. People bought real money and were "free-ride" for no effort. Who will spend this money in the future?
In addition, AniMajor has officially started recently. Huya has obtained the domestic live broadcast rights for the event, and has also put a lot of effort into this event, such as signing an anchor, giving benefits, etc.
However, Douyu did not obtain live broadcast rights during the Major period, but allowed several of its anchors to "take advantage of loopholes" to conduct "non-profit" live broadcast of the event on the platform.
Even many netizens think that Douyu is breaking the "rules" and have a lot of opinions on this. Douyu's anchor Diao Ge (Chen Yaozhou), also posted on Weibo to apologize for what he did.
He expressed his guilt and apologies for his behavior of explaining the major game, and sincerely apologized to Huya Live Platform, anchors and the majority of Do friends.
However, some netizens revealed that he had been broadcasting for two hours, and people kept saying that he could not broadcast it, but you didn’t care. I didn’t think too much about it now?
