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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Jiang Yiji, Qingkong, soft media users 1520111, Qingluan, Monsterwolf, Xichang past, "see" one, Mo_Onster for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com, August 15 (Xinhua) Visual China has been controversial for a long time. Today, popular science blogger "Jeff's Star Journey" posted on Weibo, claiming that "Visual China called and asked him to pay an infringement fee of more than 80,000 yuan" for 173 photos. The blogger also said that the photos were actually taken by himself and had no cooperation with Visual China, so asked "Visual China to provide a reasonable explanation for this."

The Weibo CTOnews.com posted by ▲ source "Jeff's Star Journey" learned after inquiry that the blogger "Jeff's Star Journey" is a photographer who specializes in shooting starry skies. He has previously conducted many live cooperation with media such as people's account and was affectionately known by fans as "brother-in-law". According to the relevant Weibo posted by the blogger, Visual China claimed that its photos involved "material library infringement" and offered two ways to settle:

Cooperation between the two sides: visual China requires the blogger to buy material library materials, the number of purchases is not less than 173, the unit price of each picture is 300 yuan / piece, and the cooperation period is one year. After the cooperation agreement is signed, the previous responsibility contract for the use of pictures is directly exempted. And "you can select another 173 pictures from Vision China to download and use".

The two sides settled: visual China asked the blogger to pay for 173 "infringing photos" with a unit price of 500 yuan per picture.

▲ source "Jeff's Star Journey" posted Weibo blogger "Jeff's Star Journey" that he has never uploaded his photos to Visual China material library, nor has he cooperated with Visual China, so the blogger questioned Visual China "where did you illegally obtain these photos for illegal sale, and how much illegal proceeds did you get? How many companies did you sue with my photo, and how much illegal income did you get? "

▲ image source "Jeff's Star Journey" posted Weibo blogger Weibo comment area, various netizens are talking about:

The official Weibo of China National Astronomy magazine, China National Astronomy, said: "We have also received similar phone calls, such as public domain pictures released by NASA NASA are counted as their copyright."

A netizen "ran Xiansen" said, "look at the copyright chain on the screenshot. These pictures are uploaded to Stocktrek Images under the name of Jeff Dai, Stocktrek Images synchronized to Getty Images sales, and Getty Images synchronized to Vision China for sales."

At the same time, netizen ran Xiansen said, "many people will write their copyright signatures as net names, not necessarily using their real names. This photographer also writes his English name overseas. This kind of multi-level agent, the gallery will not disclose the photographer's real information to the public. This also belongs to Oolong."

The following comments were also discussed, with netizens saying, "Thank you for warming my world". "depending on the contract signed with the first online platform, whether the authorization is a general authorization or the kind of authorization that no one else is allowed to use except the authorized party."

▲ image source "Jeff's Star Journey" released Weibo

▲ image source "Jeff's Star Journey" released a Weibo update: visual China posted Weibo at 20:55 today in response to the incident. Vision China's official Weibo said:

With regard to the copyright pictures between our company and photographer @ Jeff's star tour on Weibo, we attach great importance to it. We immediately learned the situation and got in touch with the parties concerned.

After preliminary verification, the photographer authorized the picture library Stocktrek Images to sell, and Stocktrek Images authorized the relevant pictures to Getty Images to sell. Vision China, as the exclusive partner of Getty Images in Chinese mainland region, has the complete sales rights, including the related pictures, and the sales authorization chain of the involved pictures is clear and complete.

We will continue to communicate with photographers and properly deal with relevant misunderstandings.

▲ Picture Source Vision China released Weibo

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