According to the current situation of HowNet, all academic institutions in China can't bypass HowNet, because people not only have to search articles from HowNet to find innovations, but also use HowNet to check duplicates, but the function of HowNet is not free. In the accusation announcement of the Chinese Academy of Sciences some time ago, the charge of HowNet was as high as100000 yuan a year, which was unreasonable to everyone. Previously, several colleges and universities had fought over the issue of fees, but in the end they had to give in to the reality because their students and teachers needed to use HowNet. With the black history of HowNet again and again, many people think that HowNet is suspected of monopoly.
From the perspective of intellectual property rights: HowNet may still have copyright infringement problems.
Previously, Professor Zhao Dexin sued HowNet for infringing its copyright. Finally, the court ruled that HowNet apologized to Professor Zhao Dexin and compensated 700,000 yuan. According to the judgment of the court, it is not difficult to find that the profit model of HowNet is problematic. HowNet contains many papers from core journals, but HowNet doesn't need to pay for journals and authors, which is the biggest problem. What's more, whether a few hundred yuan can be included in a paper must be approved by the author of the paper, and the author of the paper disagrees. How did HowNet publish its papers? Can it be solved by an announcement? All kinds of doubts make us suspect that HowNet may have infringement problems. Of course, if HowNet has a better explanation, we can accept it.
From the perspective of anti-monopoly law: HowNet may be suspected of monopoly.
From the perspective of anti-monopoly law, it is the most popular saying that the institutions suspected of monopoly engage in monopolistic behavior by taking advantage of their dominant market position. At present, the market share of HowNet in colleges and universities is 100%, and the market share in other major academic markets is 60%, which means that HowNet has a dominant market position. As for whether there is monopolistic behavior, if HowNet abuses its dominant position in the market and arbitrarily raises the service price, then there is the possibility of monopoly. In addition, if HowNet is willful because of monopolizing academic research, Professor Zhao Dexin also claims that HowNet has never put papers back on HowNet, which means that HowNet may involve monopolistic behavior and is an academic monopoly. According to the presumption of Anti-Monopoly Law, it is a kind of monopoly for HowNet to engage in monopoly by taking advantage of its dominant market position, and it also needs to bear administrative punishment and accept the fate of rectification because of its own monopoly.