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SCMP Reporter

Giant mainland movie production house Huayi Brothers  has sued five popular  websites, which host video-sharing, for copyright infringement of its  hit romantic comedy, If You Are the One.
Huayi Brothers chief executive Wang Zhonglei   said Beijing's Haidian District  People's Court had agreed on Tuesday to hear the company's 110,000 yuan (HK$125,000)  suit against Sina.com,  Sohu.com,  Youku.com,  Tudou.com  and VOC-one  for copyright violations.
The company claimed five of its movies produced in 2007 and last year, including Assembly,  The Equation of Love and Death  and The Forbidden Kingdom,  were found available for downloading or viewing without authorisation shortly after they were released.
If You Are the One, which has earned more than 302 million yuan since it was released on December 18, was viewed millions of times during the New Year  holiday,  Mr Wang said.
'Today we found another website providing a download. The infringement not only violates the rights of Huayi Brothers but also damages the interests of authorised distributors of other versions such as DVDs.'
The websites removed the content at Huayi's request, Mr Wang said.
He said the company was also concerned about the source of the upload because, unlike versions taped in movie theatres, these uploaded copies were high resolution.
Video-sharing websites are increasingly becoming targets of intellectual property rights infringement lawsuits. In May, a Shanghai court ordered Tudou to pay 50,000 yuan in costs and damages for infringing the copyright of Nubb,  owner of the online distribution rights of the hit comedy Crazy Stone.  Tudou was repeatedly taken to court last year for copyright infringement over the alleged unauthorised use of hundreds of films and television series.
This week more than 80 copyright holders, including record label Orange Sky Entertainment,  formed an anti-piracy alliance, announcing at the same time that the group was collecting evidence to be used in a suit against Tudou for unauthorised use of its video content.



Movie house sues websites over video-sharing