As we all know, a platform has a large number of users, and the platform can improve its popularity in an appropriate way. If the platform abuses its dominant market position and seeks benefits for enterprises, it will lead to irregular competition in the industry, and the information involved includes monopoly.
A professor from a university in Zhejiang Province took HowNet to court, mainly because the platform abused its dominant position. In fact, the high subscription fee of HowNet has been affecting the user experience, but HowNet contains a large number of articles and papers. Once a student can't subscribe to the membership and complete the thesis defense or fill in, it may affect his normal graduation. Obviously, many students can't tell their own sufferings, and some teachers and professors are also facing unfair situations. The first thing to bear is that the website will not take the initiative to pay the main manuscript fee.
Or it will be the first case in China to prosecute HowNet for abusing its dominant position. People use HowNet to obtain information, and HowNet can appropriately charge membership fees and give the author of the paper an appropriate contribution fee. After all, intellectual property rights are very important, and no organization or individual should use other people's knowledge at will. Good cooperation between the two parties can not only increase the influence of HowNet in the whole market, but also avoid the contradiction between HowNet and users to a great extent.
A university professor found that HowNet's behavior in the development process was quite different, so he took it to court. It is a long process for the court to accept a case, and the court staff need to obtain a large amount of information that can be used for judgment within a certain period of time, which also requires the plaintiff and the defendant to prepare information. Although the local court has successfully accepted the case, the court still needs to conduct a very fair trial and there is no verdict for the time being. As for the follow-up, you can wait for relevant media reports.