Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 292

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 292
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1992, the Universal Copyright Convention in October 1992, and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights upon its accession to the World Trade Organization in December 2001.
The PRC Copyright Law, promulgated by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on September 7, 1990 and last amended on November 11, 2020, becoming effective on June 1, 2021, along with its related implementing regulations issued by the State Council on August 2, 2002 and last amended on January 30, 2013, becoming effective on March 1, 2013, provides that Chinese citizens, legal persons, or other organizations shall, whether published or not, enjoy copyright in their works, which include, among others, works of literature, art, natural science, social science, engineering technology and computer software. The purpose of the PRC Copyright Law aims to encourage the creation and dissemination of works which is beneficial for the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and material civilization and promote the development and prosperity of Chinese culture.

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Under the Regulations on Protection of the Right to Network Dissemination of Information, which took effect on July 1, 2006 and was amended on January 30, 2013, an internet information service provider may be held liable under various situations. This includes scenarios where the provider knows or reasonably should have known about a copyright infringement through the internet and fails to take measures to remove, block, or disconnect links to the relevant content, and where the internet information service provider, even in the absence of awareness of the infringement, fails to take such measures upon receipt of the copyright holder’s notice of infringement. The internet information service provider may be exempted from indemnification liabilities under the following circumstances:

(i)   any internet information service provider that provides automatic internet access service upon instructions from its users or provides automatic transmission service for works, performances and audio/visual products provided by its users is not required to assume indemnification liabilities if (a) it has not chosen or altered the transmitted works, performance and audio/visual products and (b) it provides such works, performances and audio/visual products to the designated users and prevents any person other than such designated users from obtaining access;
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(ii)   any internet information service provider that, for the sake of improving network transmission efficiency, automatically stores and provides to its own users the relevant works, performances and audio/visual products obtained from any other internet