NetEase Cloud Music is at war with Tencent Music again.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately became a hot search topic.

This was a serious incident, but after reading the comments I laughed like crazy.

"Don't fight anymore."

"NetEase Cloud can handle it. If something comes true, let's fight. Let's fight." .

“I support whoever has the cheapest membership. ”

Everyone really enjoys watching the excitement.

There are also many netizens who "take advantage of the situation" and determine the membership price.

What's even more funny is that some people directly made two. The new logo of the merger.

Not to mention, the logo is quite beautiful.

This kind of reaction is actually not surprising.

This is not the first time that the two companies have "quarreled" over copyright.

In terms of copyright, each has its shortcomings.

This time, NetEase Cloud Music strikes hard.

It directly sued the subject Tencent Music, which includes QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and National Karaoke.

The content of the lawsuit includes the following two points:

1. Malicious copyright infringement, and suspected of resisting rectification

2. Long-term concerns about NetEase Cloud Music’s visual design, product functions, Plagiarism through innovative mechanisms, etc.

Simply put, Tencent Music has infringed on their musical works and various ideas.

Regarding the three points of copyright infringement, I was shocked after reading it.

How can this be done?

First of all, QQ Music uses the "domain-specific playback" function to pirate NetEase Cloud music works.

QQ Music works are put on the shelves without authorization. The other party's hit singles

For example, Yan Renzhong's "Good Night", Mao Buyi's "People Like Me", Bo Song's "The Beauty of the World is All About You"...

They found the blind spot of NetEase Cloud Music and only removed cities within the daily monitoring range of NetEase Cloud, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and other places.

However, users can still play normally in cities outside the detection range, such as Jinan, Taiyuan, Suzhou and other places.

This move is really amazing, it captures the opponent's blind spot.

Secondly, QQ Music secretly plays NetEase Cloud Music works through the "Import external playlist" function.

This means that songs without copyright can be listened to through the "songlist link import" method.

In order to distinguish the authenticity, I tested it myself.

Using the playlist import method, NetEase Cloud Music's exclusive "Good Night" was successfully imported into QQ Music.

Because the copyright of this song does not belong to QQ Music, it can only be played, but cannot be shared or sung.

Later, I used the same method to import QQ Music's exclusive Last Night Party "Broken Man You Listen" into NetEase Cloud Music. It was successful, but it was not the original version. , but a cover version.

Such small details are really surprising.

Finally, NetEase Cloud Music sued Tencent Music for mass plagiarism and malicious interception of unauthorized popular songs.

To put it simply, after a song from NetEase Cloud Music became popular, QQ Music subsequently launched a large number of songs of the same name to earn traffic.

For example, after Xu Jiahao's "Delete It" became a hit, a large number of songs with the same name and different lyrics and music appeared on QQ Music and Kugou Music, such as "Delete It" (official version), "Delete It" "Leave it" (original singer), "Delete it" (Tik Tok hot search Yan voice version)...

(QQ music search interface)

NetEase Cloud Music also stated that some of the singers’ names were imitations of the original singers.

For example, "Lao Pan next door" impersonated the musician "Lao Fan next door" and illegally listed related works.

KuWo Music’s “Lao Pan next door” has released “I Was” and “How I Want to Live in a Mediocre Life” by “Lao Fan Next Door” "Hug You", "Four Dollars and Five"...

Using this kind of similar words, listeners who are not familiar with the original singer cannot detect the difference at all.

It is easy to mistake falsehood for truth.

In addition to suing music copyright, NetEase Cloud Music also sued creative plagiarism.

First of all, it plagiarizes the design of the vinyl playback page.

In 2013, NetEase Cloud Music registered a patent for the vinyl playback interface, but starting in 2020, Tencent Music’s apps began to launch vinyl interface designs one after another.

On the left is QQ Music and on the right is NetEase Cloud Music.

Secondly, it accuses plagiarism of the "Listen Together" function.

In 2020, NetEase Cloud Music launched the “Listen Together” function.

Although I haven’t used this feature yet, it really made my eyes shine when I saw it for the first time.

(NetEase Cloud Music’s “Listen Together”)

In 2021, Kugou Music also launched “Listen Together” "Function.

NetEase Cloud Music accused them of pixel-level plagiarism, because except for the name, the function settings and page interaction design are almost identical.

(Kugou Music’s “Listen Together”)

A month later, QQ Music under Tencent Music was also launched The "Music Room·Listen Together" function was launched, and six months later, it was directly renamed "Listen Together".

(QQ Music’s “Listen Together”)

Finally, its complaint against “ Plagiarism of "Yunbei Push Song" function.

In April 2020, NetEase Cloud Music launched the "Yunbei Song Push" function to facilitate users to promote their favorite songs.

Three months later, Kugou Music launched the “Music Push” function.

NetEase Cloud Music said that Kugou’s “Music Push” copied “Yunbei Push Song” at the pixel level in terms of function settings and interface design.

The above is the entire complaint made by NetEase Cloud Music against Tencent Music’s App.

But this afternoon, Tencent Music responded.

Chen Mo, head of Tencent Music brand public relations, said in the circle of friends:

“We will not join the ranks of quarrels. , after all, our friends are a group of people who truly respect and love music. The relevant evidence has been preserved for a long time, and the lawsuits that should be initiated have been launched. We believe in the fairness of the law.”

Looking at the whole process, this is actually the consequence of business competition.

Naturally, the team cannot resolve this matter, and the copyright dispute between the two parties has not lasted for more than a day or two.

To this day, there is no reasonable solution.

The dispute between NetEase Cloud Music and Tencent Music also reflects the imperfection of the domestic music industry system, which does not form an overall layout from top to bottom.

But fortunately there is no gap in this industry, and more and more people are joining the construction path of the music industry.

Although there are many loopholes, everyone is working hard to fill them.

The music industry is hard-won. I hope everyone can do the right thing and let the industry develop in a healthy and orderly manner.