Discovery for the first time!Spokesperson: 100%State -owned Holdings, and the copyright fee has been paid by 156 million in 2021

On the morning of August 11th, at the headquarters of Beijing Haidianzhi.com, Xiao Hong, deputy general manager and spokesman of Zhiwang, was interviewed by the reporter of the Guangming Daily for the first time.

Photo by Chen Peng, a reporter from Guangming Daily, Beijing Zhiwang Headquarters

Cumulative 42 million authors and 280 million articles

In response to the awareness of the netizens' equity components before, Xiao Hong responded that at present, Zhiwang is 100%state -owned controlling enterprise, and there is a "two divisions and one club", that is, the "Chinese Academic Journal (CD Version)" Electronic Magazine Co., Ltd. Company, Tongfangzhi.com Digital Publishing Technology Co., Ltd., Tongfangzhi.com (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd..

Xiao Hong introduced, "At present, the total number of Zhiwang has a total of about 4,300, the degree of master's degree or above accounts for 30%, and 42%of products and research and development."

The financial report in 2021 shows that Tongfangzhi ’s online revenue is 1.289 billion yuan, and the gross profit margin is 53.35%.

Xiao Hong disclosed, "In fact, in 2021, the net profit of Zhiwang was 15%. In 2021, Tongfang (Zhiwang) paid 156 million copyright fees, mainly paid to journals and academic papers." The right journal author has a huge amount, involving a total of 42 million people. We have previously used the journal as the hub and have always adopted collective transfer. "

In 2006, the state issued the "Regulations on the Protection of Information Network Communication Rights", stipulating that network communication constituted infringement as long as it was permitted by the copyright owner.

Earlier, after Professor Zhao Dexin prosecuted China Zhiwang and won the case, the old professor's article was removed from the shelves. Xiao Hong responded that we removed the article in accordance with the requirements of the author's copyright in accordance with the judgment. "Zhiwang visited Professor Zhao Dexin twice and discussed the authorization of the dissertation on the shelves. It has not been authorized so far."

Xiao Hong revealed, "For the article before 2006, we are trying to improve the author's service platform to solve the author's authorization, and hopes that through copyright collective management organizations and industry associations to jointly solve this problem together. However, we are unwilling to put 2006 in 2006 The previous papers were removed directly, which actually violated the needs of knowledge communication and academic exchanges. "

Photo by Chen Peng, a reporter from Guangming Daily

"The standard for manuscript remuneration is not clear, and it is a common problem in the industry."

Within half a year, Zhiwang has discussed with 52 journals, 49 universities and other institutions to discuss issues such as "the manuscript remuneration standards in the digital publishing environment and the authorization of network information dissemination rights" in order to find a reasonable solution.

Xiao Hong said, "We are actively exploring communication with all parties, and the standards for the dissemination of text works on the Internet are not clear. This is a common problem in the industry." He revealed that Zhiwang is recently improving the product pricing mechanism. Participate in price formulation and solve high prices through transparent ways. Xiao Hong said that Zhiwang will position basic literature security services as "public welfare+micro -profit", and at the same time, it will also provide personalized and value -added services for high -end users.

Photo by Chen Peng, a reporter from Guangming Daily, a CD -ROM Reading Center of Zhiwang CD

How to balance between "intellectual property protection" and "reasonable use of knowledge" is a key issue related to the development of the academic database industry. Xiao Hong said, "On the one hand, knowing that the Internet must ensure the author's payable, on the other hand, the author's results must be widely spread. Therefore, it will consider optimizing the author's manuscript settlement method, improve the reward of the author's manuscript, so that it will be good Work income is more. "

Earlier, on May 13, 2022, the State Administration of Market Supervision was investigated on the suspected monopoly behavior of Zhiwang in accordance with the preliminary inspection according to law. On June 23, 2022, the Cyber ​​Security Examination Office interviewed the person in charge of Zhiwang and announced that it started the network security review of Zhiwang.

Source: Guangming Daily WeChat public account

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