Some time ago, because the renewal fee was as high as ten million yuan, the Chinese Academy of Sciences stopped using HowNet, which attracted netizens' attention and heated discussion. Later, with the fermentation of public opinion, the State Administration of market supervision filed an investigation into the suspected monopoly of HowNet according to the law according to the preliminary verification. However, HowNet's troubles are more than these; On May 23, writer and screenwriter Chen Jian announced on his microblog that 15 writers had jointly submitted a complaint to the Beijing Internet court to sue HowNet for publishing original works without authorization, which seriously infringed the creator's copyright**
Jingdong's main venue on June 18, 2022 - pre order on the evening of May 23
Chen Jian said that most of these works were published in magazines over the years, but were included by HowNet without our authorization. Some people reached 170 articles and some reached 4.1 million words. They were not submitted to some magazines, but were illegally reprinted by them and included arbitrarily by HowNet.
It can be seen that HowNet does not screen the source of its copyright at all and ignores the protection of intellectual property rights Therefore, it is requested to order HowNet to stop the infringement, admit the mistake and compensate for the economic losses
HowNet has not responded to this matter.
In addition, in August last year, Professor Zhao Dexin filed a petition to court. Finally, Zhao Dexin won the lawsuit and lost 700000 yuan.