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Tencent v. wdzj.com (Shenzhen Nanshan Dist. Ct. 2020)
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Facts:
Dreamwriter is an automated news writing program (AI)
based on data and algorithms developed by Tencent in
2015.
On Aug 20, 2018, Dreamwriter wrote a financial report,
which was published on the Tencent Securities website,
noted that "the article was automatically written by
Tencent Robot Dreamwriter."
Wdzj.com copied the article onto its own website.
Tencent sued for copyright infringement.
Holding:
The article generated by Al was original, and a
copyrightable work.
Tencent is the author since the work was the result of
activities carried out on behalf of Tencent.
Damages: 1,500 RMB
Morgan Lewis
Chinese court rules Al-
generated article is
entitled to copyright
Updated 14:55, 13-Jan-2020
Zhang Guanlan
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