Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 142

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 142
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 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...  

  (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 an...  

  (iii)      any internet information service provider that provides its users with information memory space for such users to provide the works, performances and audio/visual products to the general public...  

  (iv)      an internet information service provider that provides its users with search engine or link services should not be required to assume the indemnification liabilities if, after receiving a notic...  

The Measures on Administrative Protection of Internet Copyright, which were promulgated by the Ministry of Information Industry, the predecessor of the MIIT, and National Copyright Administration on April 29, 2005 and became effective on May 30, 2005, provide that an internet information service provider shall take measures to remove the relevant contents, record relevant information after receiving the notice from the copyright owner that some content communicated through internet infringes upon his/its copyright and preserve the copyright owner’s notice for 6 months. If an internet information service provider is clearly aware of an internet content provider’s tortuous act of infringing upon another’s copyright through internet or fails to take measures to remove relevant contents after receipt of the copyright owner’s notice although it is not clearly aware of the infringing act, which results