Mr. Le Van Phuong, residing in Tan Lap commune, Dong Phu district (Binh Phuoc) said that after many long months of intense sunshine, termite mushrooms sprouted after the cool rains at the beginning of the season. This fungus is special in that, they only appear in places where termites nest, from the footprints of workers passing through. The new umbrella termite mushroom, which grows naturally in the forest, has the highest price. “During the process of crawling around the nest, worker termites leave behind a saliva-like substance. After the rain, this substance grows fragrant mushrooms. Those who went to pick mushrooms at night, before they could see the mushrooms, smelled the sweet aroma of mushrooms at the top of the forest,” Phuong shared. According to Mr. Phuong, the termite mushroom season only lasts a few months and emerges from the ground at about 2-3 am and withers in the early afternoon. Therefore, people take advantage of going into the forest at midnight to look for mushrooms. People who use flashlights, those who shine motorbikes run into the forest, to rubber lots or cashew fields to look at mushrooms all night. Those who go to shave rubber will be the first to encounter termites because the work of tapping latex is usually done at night. However, once you see the mushrooms, you have to know how to pick them to get all the mushrooms and sell them at a high price. “We had to use very strong wooden sticks, as small as fingers, to poke the mushrooms. In the early morning, the new mushroom sprouted its head on the ground, so the body was still lying on the ground. Therefore, using a stick to poke down, lift the whole mushroom body up. Especially do not use iron rods because the next season the mushrooms do not grow again, it takes time to find other places, “said Phuong. Those who go to pick mushrooms must use a sharp tree to get the body of the termite mushroom deep in the ground. In the past, people went to pick mushrooms just to stir-fry with melon or melon tops as food for their families. Seeing that the mushroom is crispy, more delicious than any other mushroom, plus many people know the great taste and value of the forest termite mushroom, so the mushroom is purchased at a high price, from 700 to 900,000 VND/kg. Therefore, many people stayed up at night to look for termites. In each termite mushroom season, Ms. Cao Thi Thuy, residing in Tan Phu ward, City. Dong Xoai (Binh Phuoc) all drive back to their hometown in Bu Dang to look for mushrooms. According to Ms. Thuy, termite mushrooms have 2 types, white body and black body. The black body is tough, crispy, sweeter than the white one, so the price is also higher. “Mushrooms are very fragrant. Going to look for mushrooms, just need to be sharp, you will smell the faint aroma of termite mushrooms somewhere. Holding the searchlight around, you will see small dim light spots of the mushroom, “said Ms. Thuy. People use motorcycle lights to pick mushrooms. According to Ms. Thuy, the price of termite mushrooms in recent years has always been sky-high. If 3 years ago it was only 450,000 VND/kg, last year it was 700,000 VND/kg. This year, at the beginning of the season, selling to people around the area is also 750,000 VND/kg. After each heavy rain, the lucky person can pick a few kilograms of mushrooms, making a few million easily. In recent years, grasping the market demand in big cities, many people in Dong Phu practice “dealing with termites”. Instead of going to the forest with a lamp to pick mushrooms every night, all day they drive hundreds of kilometers across areas considered to have many termites to buy and collect goods. Mr. Nguyen Huu Mieu in Thuan Loi commune, Dong Phu district, who has been trading in termite mushrooms for 7 years, said that this fungus is hunted by consumers everywhere. In particular, they only buy forest termite mushrooms. Termite mushrooms are hunted by traders everywhere with high prices. Only by purchasing termite mushrooms, 3 members of Mr. Mieu’s family can earn about 3 million VND/day. This year, if mushrooms are still abundant and the price of mushrooms is as high as now, the income of mushroom traders like him will definitely be higher. According to medicine, mushrooms are rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, protein and other nutrients that are very good for health, especially people with diabetes, the sick and the elderly. Eating termite mushrooms regularly can improve immunity against cancer cells, anti-aging… Delicious dishes made from termite mushrooms are very simple and rustic, such as: pancakes filled with termite mushrooms, fried termite mushrooms, termite mushroom soup, termite mushroom porridge…

Looking after the island, the lucky couple receives 2.7 billion VND per year Many people must have dreamed of having a job that ‘makes money just for fun’. Now, that dream will come true when a wealthy family makes a job announcement. The wealthy family is looking for a couple to look after their own island in the Bahamas and promise to pay between $100,000 and $120,000 a year. The rich family calls the person they plan to hire a ‘domestic travel couple’, because their mission is to live in expensive homes in Naples, Florida and the Bahamas, and on duty. oversee 3 areas. Caregivers can use the family’s private jet to travel between areas. However, the land in the Bahamas alone consists of four houses with four bedrooms in each house, so cleaning, arranging and managing is no small task. Wealthy families often spend a lot of time in the Bahamas, but in the near future they will balance between the three areas. Depending on the candidate’s experience, the family will pay commensurately. The selected couple also receive benefits on health care, dental care, and private cars. They only work Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm. On weekends, the couple has plenty of time to rest and relax by participating in some of the best water sports in the world, or enjoying nature, basking in the sun, watching look at palm-fringed beaches. Lucy Challenger, founder of ‘Polo & Tweed’, says this is truly a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity. Lucy Challenger said: “We received a lot of interest when we started posting about this. We are still waiting for couples to submit CVs.” Before that, a young man named Ben Southall, living in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, was lucky to get a job to look after the island around the Great Barrier Reef, Australia with a salary of 2.6 billion VND for 6 months and many other offers. Ben Southall’s job was then dubbed ‘the best in the world’, when every day he just looked after, explored the islands in the coral reef, recorded information. Ben Southall likens his job to a beach vacation. The man landed his dream job after winning over 35,000 applicants who applied for the position.

However, from these part-time jobs, each student has different experiences. Some of you have been cheated by your employer, have a situation where “old ghosts bully new ghosts” … and you are mocked “why do college students do manual work”? That is also the story that a female student has just shared on a social networking forum and received a lot of attention from fans. At the beginning of her story, the hot girl student H oh : “Selling coffee carts is not respectable labor, people?”. The female student chose the job of selling trolley coffee to work part-time, even though it was a genuine job, she was ridiculed by her friends. Illustration Next, the female student recounted that, due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, the economic situation of her parents in the countryside was severely reduced, so the female student found herself a part-time job after school to earn more money. tuition fees for living expenses. The job that the female student chooses is selling trolley coffee, a job that receives a salary that makes her happy, more importantly, that she has just made money without affecting her studies. The story would not be worth mentioning if the female student did not have to listen to the sarcasm and teasing of her classmates about the job the female student is doing. The text of the story is shared as follows: “This year, the epidemic has returned, so my parents are in the countryside, doing live music rental business, but during the epidemic season, no one can organize events or get married to have an income. Just under control, our family receives After a few parties, when the festival came, the epidemic broke out again. If I could not pay the investment debt to buy equipment, I would lose my income because of the epidemic, so my education would also be affected. I see that, so I also want to go to work to help my parents in the countryside. But I still have a busy schedule, so full time is impossible. So I’m looking for part-time jobs. That’s it, I read and found a job that was selling trolley coffee. The work is not very hard, just push the small coffee cart to the corner of the street to sell. With an initial salary of 28k / hour, but one day I sold a lot, so the owner supported me to increase it to 40k / hour. I worked for a few weeks and felt that I could both ensure my schedule and take advantage of my free time to earn extra income, so I’m quite satisfied. And the story should have stopped here, but when I was assigned to sell near my school in Binh Thanh and my guests that day were students in the same course as me. And especially before, I once refused the love of a male friend in that group and until now I still think it was the right decision because even though he is really rich, he is like a beloved son with a series of “favorites”. ” about his feelings on his school’s Confession. Yesterday, it was sunny, but I was still recognized by them. They mocked “I knew you in the past, but now I don’t have to do this hard wholesale” and many sayings sound like nothing, but really, in my situation, I can understand what it’s like to be hinted at. Only “studying in college but going to the street to sell coffee, accepting friends N. is time to go out” is very annoying. Honestly, at that time, I was also a little sorry because I did not have the same conditions as them. But it wouldn’t be sad if today I didn’t hear my friends talking about them going around the school saying “business administration” but selling coffee, mocking me for studying “business administration” at a school. fame without finding a suitable job to do but selling coffee for a walk…. Then my friends also asked if I needed any help… Then when I go to class, everyone keeps teasing me, why don’t you sell coffee anymore, tomorrow get me a few dozen cups and I’ll invite the whole class to drink. … Hey everyone, the ministry of manual labor is not worthy of respect, is it that I go to college to gain knowledge, universities train quality labor, not always training directors and chiefs? where is the room. I do it with my own strength, I wake up at 5 am to prepare, at 5:30 am I have to be at the shop. I do it with my own strength, not cheating or stealing from anyone. Every industry is a profession, it is also a labor. Why do they have a mocking attitude towards people, part-time students like me?”. Immediately after this story appeared on social networks, it immediately received a lot of attention from fans, especially students. A series of comments were made, most of which advised female students to stay confident in what they are doing, to be proud of themselves when they can earn genuine money to support themselves. help parents. “Why do you care so much? I just do what I like, I have to be myself. I don’t care what other people say, as long as it doesn’t break the law it’s fine.” “In the past, when I went to school, I sold burgers, cleaned the toilet, cleaned the office, still delicious. Only someone who has never worked for a living behaves like that, but what makes money without committing crimes? All laws are the same.” “There is nothing funny about doing business with your own labor, thanks to a few small businesses, you have learned a lot of experience, the important thing is that not everyone dares to work hard and show their face to sell like that. !”. “Students in any profession need to be respected and put in the effort to be shameless. Those who are successful, they have also done manual and hard work to get the results they are today. what the gossip in and out of”. Indeed, any profession is worthy of respect, any genuine work is suitable for us to be passionate about. Earning money is not easy, for this reason, when you earn it yourself, you can see how precious it is. For those young people who are fortunate to have a better life, better family conditions, please refrain from criticizing and mocking other friends. Because you can’t know that those words, whether unintentionally or intentionally, will not make you more noble and noble; not to mention will severely hurt those “innocent” friends.

Having just opened the service on Quote Sai Street (Tay Ho, Hanoi) for 4 months, Mr. Trong Dat – the owner of the store – said that since the Covid-19 translation, people’s demand for on-site fitness and travel has increased. . “Grasping this trend, I opened a bicycle rental service and attracted a lot of customers,” he said. At the store, he has about 50 cars for rent, each one costs 40,000 VND / 3 hours weekdays and 50,000 VND / 3 hours on weekends and holidays. “Customers often rent in the early morning and late afternoon. Weekends are always ‘burned’ cars, many people often have to wait for their turn,” he said. Bicycle rental services in West Lake can bring in revenue of up to several million / day. Photo: Thanh Thuong. According to Mr. Dat, in order to ensure the quality and the needs of customers well, after the customer’s trip, he must inspect each part, repair and maintain. “To rent bicycles, guests only need to leave ID card or citizenship ID, return the motorbike,” he added. His shop is open from 5 am to 24 pm, in addition, his shop also rents bicycles for 100,000 VND / 3 hours for weekdays and 120,000 VND / 3 hours for weekends and holidays. Similarly, Mr. Nguyen Hai – the owner of a bicycle purchase, sale, repair and rental shop on Quote Sai Street – said that in spring and early summer, the weather is nice, so cycling in West Lake is an activity to attract people. Tourists experience, exercise, take pictures. At Mr. Hai’s store, there are about 70 cars, most of them are imported from Japan. Car rental is calculated by the hour with a fixed price of 40,000 VND / 3 hours excluding weekdays and weekends. “On weekends, with nice sunny weather, I rent out 150-200 cars at most. In addition to renting, I also repair, buy and sell bicycles for customers in need”, he shared. With an average price of 40,000 VND / time about 3 hours, West Lake bicycle rental service attracts all ages from young to old. Photo: Nhu Nae. According to Mr. Hai, doing this service on a crowded day can earn a few million dong, but on a weekday, in bad weather, it only earns a few hundred thousand dong. “Bicycle rental is rarely risky, since I rented a bicycle until now there have been no cases of car theft or money loss,” he added. Also on Quote Sai street, another bicycle rental shop has just opened. The owner of this store said that on average, his shop can rent 80-100 cars per day. “At first, the number of cars at the store was small, I plan to import more cars in 1-2 months to meet the needs of customers,” he said. Since knowing that there is a bicycle rental service in West Lake, Nhung (Dong Da, Hanoi) and friends often invite each other to cycle on weekends. “Because my house is far away, I often come here by motorbike and rent a bicycle. This is a sports activity that helps to relax the spirit very well after a hard working week,” said Nhung. In addition, in West Lake there is a rental service for SUP, Kayak boats at a cost of about 200,000 VND / boat without time limit, attracting visitors to participate in the experience.

Currently, melon is in bloom, on average, each pole brings income to people in Nghi Huong about 15-20 million VND. Photo: Thanh Phuc On the 3-hectare field of Dien Bien (Nghi Huong ward, Cua Lo town), people are busy, rushing to harvest melons in time to bring them to the market. This is a traditional melon variety, sticking with the people of Nghi Huong for 30 years. Nghi Huong watermelon has an oblong shape, when ripe, the skin is cracked, the flesh of the melon is smooth and fragrant, very “popular” with consumers. This year, the weather is favorable, melons are in good season and good value. After being harvested, melons are bought by traders at the field for 12,000 VND / kg or according to the fruit from 10,000 – 30,000 VND / fruit (depending on size). Compared to every year, each fruit increases on average from 3,000 to 5,000 VND / fruit. On average, each pole of melon gives an income of 18-20 million VND, excluding expenses, and a net profit of 10 million VND, 7 times higher than that of rice cultivation. Melons are purchased by traders from the field with high prices. Photo: Thanh Phuc Ms. Hoang Thi Hong, a melon farmer in Dien Bien, said: “Melon is a local variety, plant it by itself, takes little care of it, does not have to control pests and diseases and has a short growth time, only 1, 5 months (melon) and 2.5 months (main season melon) for harvest. Each year, 2 melon crops are planted, the main crop is planted from February to early April for harvest; The fruit season starts from May to the end of June for harvest. Compared with rice and maize, melon has many times higher economic value ”. Dien Bien block has 200 households working in agriculture, about 120 households growing melon. For the past two years, the area of ​​the Nghi Huong people of melon has been narrowed down due to the land acquisition for the construction of the coastal road. Previously, the entire ward had 10 hectares to grow melon, but now it is reduced to 4 hectares. From the economic efficiency of melon plant brings and wants to preserve and develop local melon varieties, in the near future, Nghi Huong ward is planning to develop melon growing area on rice land. Cantaloupe Nghi Huong, Nghi Thach is a local traditional melon, which is especially delicious and different from new varieties of melon in other provinces. Photo: Thanh Phuc In Nghi Thach commune (Nghi Loc), there are about 10 hectares of melon, mainly concentrated in the villages: Xuan Lac, Xuan Hoa, Xuan Tien, Xuan Thinh and Trung Khanh. According to melon growers, melon has the advantage of not having to buy seeds and materials such as nitrogen, phosphorus or plant protection drugs. This plant only likes manure. Low cost while high resale price, so growers are profitable. Mr. Nguyen Tho Khang, a farmer who grows melon in Xuan Thinh hamlet, said: “This year, the heat comes early, the melon is consumed strongly. After harvesting, someone buys them right at the field. Many households sell to customers across the road along National Highway 46 to Cua Lo; import for beverage bars and retail in Vinh city markets with higher prices. My family harvests 40-50kg of melons every day, earning about 1 million VND “. Melon is present at local markets in Vinh city, is a cool fruit on summer days that many people choose. Photo: Thanh Phuc Currently, melon is in full bloom, every day on Nghi Huong melon fields, traders from all over Nghi Thach pour in to buy. People also actively connect with beverage shops to find a stable outlet for melon. Therefore, when harvested, melons are sold out. Only about 1 week to end the main melon crop, continue to do soil, sowing for the melon crop. Melon is a delicious fruit – nutritious – cheap – cool, both refreshing, good heat, and cures many diseases such as: Cure acne and pigmentation, smooth skin, cure insomnia, cough anhydrous, constipation … When buying, choose a thin shell, heavy-handed. The delicious and safe melons on the skin still have a thin layer of undercoat, emitting a pleasant aroma. If the melon is chemically soaked, both the undercoat and the scent will be lost.

Living in a riverside village in Van Giang district (Hung Yen), Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy said, the pretend is a specialty only available in the Red River. Their larvae live in water, only surface once a year to molt and then fly to the surface to lay eggs. Close-up of the child pretending to be outside the Red River. (Photo: Van Thanh). According to Ms. Thuy, when she was a child, many children appeared pretending to be, but suddenly about 20 years they disappeared, causing nostalgia for generations of fishing villages. However, about 3 years ago, pretending to appear many times made the people of the fishing village excited to come out and get together to go out and pretend from 3am. “I pretend to only appear once a year around February to March of the lunar calendar and only live about 2 hours. To get rid of it, most of my family had to stay up all night to see if the next day’s situation would pretend or not. If there is, by about 4 am, the pretense will start to float, and the river will be completely flown by about 6am, ”Ms. Thuy said. The child pretends to be a specialty only available in the Red River, which can be purchased at quite high prices. On the day of pretending to appear, dozens of fishing boats with nets attached to the nose of the boat ran along the river. When it is clear, it is also the end of the fake harvest. Because people were brought up from the riverbank, people gathered and bought them all. At the beginning of the crop, the price was high, about 500,000 VND / kg, every day when it was picked up, it was about 300,000 VND / kg. “On average, my family can salvage about 3-5 kg ​​a day, but there is a record day that my house can salvage nearly 40 kg. Bring it to the market, have not yet sold out all. Because it only appears a few days / month, it is necessary to be able to watch it to avoid the end of the season ”, Ms. Thuy said. Nearly 20 years of “losing track”, about 3 years ago, the pretend started to appear again. As the owner of a famous restaurant in Ngoc Thuy, Long Bien (Hanoi), but Van Thanh still goes out and pretends because this is an insect that has attached to the childhood of riverside children like him. At the same time, he used pretend to cook into dishes to serve guests to eat at his restaurant. In order to catch the pretense, fishermen like Thanh had to prepare from 3am, use a fixed net at the nose of the boat and pick them up because they only appeared from 4-6am and disappeared. According to Thanh, there are not every place where there are pretensions, but only at the confluence of the river where there is a lot of soil for them to nest. “Usually it takes a lot of attention to be able to watch the right day of pretending to molt because only 1-2 times a month. After 2 molting, they lay eggs and then die. Eggs hatch into larvae and return to the river bed waiting for the day to be molested on the surface “, Mr. Thanh said. After being processed, the baby becomes a specialty, with the price up to a million VND / kg. After picking up, Mr. Thanh processed many dishes to serve diners such as pretending to braise fish, pretend soup, pretending to roast honey leaves, and pretending to fry eggs … If he can save a lot, he proceeds to preserve it. separate to be used all year. “From the beginning of the crop up to now I have picked up 2 times, each time about 10-20kg. If selling fresh, it is only about 500,000 VND / kg but processed, each kilo can make 4 plates with the price from 200-300,000 VND / plate. So, each kilo of pretense will cost about 1 million dong ”, Mr. Thanh shared. I pretended to be a phytoplankton, after molting, only lived a few hours on the water. According to the book “Ten thousand questions of why”, I pretend to belong to the set of Ephemeral Wings, a set belonging to a group of Palaeoptera, together with the order of Dragonflies, whose scientific name is Ephemeroptera. They are twofold. After the second time, they only have one pair of wings and then live for only a few hours. The longest lifespan of pretending is not more than a week. The larvae of the child pretend to live in the water, after rolling a few times to become the same. When it becomes a coincidence, its body is soft, light emitting, the two antennae on the head are like a dagger, at the end of the abdomen grows 3 tail feathers. In the evening the children pretend to gather, fly over the water to perform mating. After the sex is finished, pretend the female spawns the eggs in the water. The vast majority of them to the next day “deadlock”.

Deutsche Bank boss Christian Sewing takes over the post of chief lobbyist of the private financial institutions in July. The board of directors of the banking association BdB today elected Sewing as the successor to the chairman of the board of directors of the private bank Berenberg, Hans-Walter Peters. Sewing is considered a “doer” who has managed to get Germany’s largest financial institution out of the red in the middle of the corona pandemic. Nevertheless, Deutsche Bank is also lagging behind its foreign competition, especially the large Wall Street houses. A look at the latest quarterly figures shows how big the gap is. According to this, the American industry leader JPMorgan alone earned in the first three months of this year with 14.3 billion dollars, almost five times the value of the previous year. Goldman Sachs increased profits sixfold to $ 6.7 billion. Deutsche Bank will not publish its new quarterly figures until next week, but a look at the fourth quarter of 2020 reveals how far behind the group is. The German industry leader earned just 189 million euros during this period, compared to 624 million euros for the year as a whole.

Only one percent return

Even beyond the absolute figures, the US banks outshine the domestic institutions by far. JPMorgan’s return on equity for the first quarter of this year is 23 percent. The Deutsche Bank managed eight percent last year, the entire German financial sector together, i.e. the private banks, the savings banks and the cooperative banks, came to just one percent. There are many reasons for such a huge difference. The fact that the US banks were able to increase their profits so strongly in the first quarter is mainly due to the good economic situation in the country. The financial institutions were able to cancel a large part of their risk provisioning for bad loans because they have to fear fewer loan defaults due to the recovery of the economy – US GDP is likely to rise by 6.5 percent this year. At JPMorgan alone, profits soared by $ 5.2 billion.

Big profits from the investment business.

At the same time, the large US companies benefited from their strong position on the capital markets and the companies’ high need for advice. JPMorgan took in investment banking, $ 2.9 billion, more than ever. Goldman Sachs even increased revenues in the division by three quarters. Deutsche Bank is likely to benefit from this boom too, as it is one of the largest foreign exchange and bond traders in the world. But the rest of the German banking industry is just sitting on the bench. Commerzbank has been saying goodbye to trading on the capital markets for years. Savings banks and Volksbanks were never really there. Of course, this is an extremely volatile business, but in times of zero interest rates it is an even more abundant source of income. Investment banking is also the greatest source of income at Deutsche Bank. Without the income from this division, the bank would not have managed to get out of the red.

Fragmented banking market

In other areas, too, German banks and savings banks are finding it difficult to increase their income from fees and commissions. Industry observers point to the still fragmented banking market in this country, which prevents adequate pricing of services. In fact, the division of the market into private banks, public savings banks and Landesbanken as well as cooperative houses remains a German peculiarity. This is an advantage for price-sensitive private customers. However, it was precisely this division that politicians wanted, that Germany, as the leading economic nation in Europe, has only one internationally positioned bank, experts have been complaining for years. However, the banks themselves are to blame for their misery. The German financial institutions are not able to reduce their dependence on the interest business and, in return, to increase their income from fees and commissions. Quite different in the US: JPMorgan increased noninterest income by 39 percent in the first quarter, but interest income by only eleven percent.

Comparatively high costs

According to management consultants at McKinsey, Germany’s banks are not offensive enough. In terms of their deposits, they lend significantly less than their European and US competitors. They are also lagging behind when it comes to selling systems. Overall, German providers are more dependent on recurring fees than their foreign competitors, according to a study published last summer. The sluggish income leads to a relatively high expense ratio for the institutes. The cost / income ratio has risen from 66 percent in 2007 to 83 percent. That is well above the international average of 70 percent. In order to achieve this standard, the banks have to further automate and digitize their business – with the result that Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank in particular have to cut many thousands of jobs.

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Author | Song Wanxin

Edit｜Yang Jin

“Watching a movie in three minutes” may become a thing of the past.

On April 9, more than 50 film and television companies, five long-term video platforms, and film and television industry associations issued a joint statement, calling on all short video platforms and public account producers and operators to respect originality, protect copyright, and not to implement related film and television works without authorization Editing, cutting, handling, dissemination and other infringements.

The above-mentioned right holders stated that they will take practical and effective measures to pursue the legal liability of the infringer, and jointly curb the industry chaos of unauthorized use of film and television works by public account producers and operators.

Sohu Technology noted that the parties to the joint statement include associations such as China Television Art Exchange Association, video platforms such as iQiyi, Tencent Video, Youku, and Mango TV, and film and television companies such as Noon Sunshine, Huace Film, Ciwen Media, and Xinli Media. The co-branded party almost encompasses the core strengths of the film and television industry, and the short video platforms and public accounts mentioned in the statement are clearly aimed at Douyin, Kuaishou and Station B.

As the market for short videos continues to rise, short video platforms have also become the latest high incidence of Internet intellectual property infringement. Popular TV shows, variety shows, and cinema movies are the “hardest hit areas” for infringements. The “2020 China Online Short Video Copyright Monitoring Report” shows that from 2019 to October 2020 alone, a total of 16,026,900 suspected infringement links have been monitored, and the infringement rate of exclusive original authors is as high as 92.9%.

Attorney Song Congcong from Shanghai Hushi (Jinan) Law Firm summed up to Sohu Technology that the current infringements on the short video platform are mainly divided into:

The first is to reprint short videos of others without their permission, which is commonly referred to as “transportation”.

The second type is to perform secondary processing of film and television works, etc., to form short videos without the permission of others. This is the “editing, cutting” and other acts referred to in the statement, also known as “second creation” videos.

The third is to adapt other types of works into short videos without the permission of others, such as adapting other people’s novels into short plays.

The fourth is to use other people’s music, songs, etc. in short videos without the permission of others.

“This joint statement is mainly aimed at the first and second behaviors. Many units jointly issued this joint statement. It can be seen that such behaviors have become widespread and have to be rectified.” Song Congcong said.

“Teach people to explain the movie”: 12,800 yuan

Taking the Douyin platform as an example, a simple search for “movies” will reveal that there are tens of thousands of blogger accounts of similar movie commentary such as “XXX Said Movies” and “XX Movies”, and their fans are more than one million.

Through the content design of each account, it can also be found that short film commentary videos have become a very mature marketing account model. Most accounts condense a two-hour movie into three short video clips by editing clips of film and television dramas, summarizing the plot, and supporting them with commentary.

On the home page of the account, the blogger will collage three short video covers into the same movie cover, which not only enhances the overall “professionalism” of the account, but also binds the views of three short videos. Many bloggers also produce collections for drama series. For example, the collection of “Black Mirror” on the homepage of “Nanzhe Movie” uses 12 episodes to explain the British drama.

Tik Tok “The Crow Movie” Homepage

Tik Tok “Nan Zhe Movie” Collection

Mature industrial operations have brought huge income to such accounts.

Under the question of “What are the profiteering industries that ordinary people don’t know?”, the netizen “Lin Kaikai” replied, “Being a Douyin movie editing account, it can easily relax tens of thousands of dollars a month.” Many people may not know that the various wonderful movie clips that we usually use on Douyin are actually a huge profit industry that has existed for a long time.”

In his answer, Lin Kaikai taught in detail the method of making a movie editing account. After completing the preliminary accumulation of account maintenance and content, the realization of a movie commentary account is very flexible. Lin Kaikai summed up nine kinds of products, including goods in the window, In addition to basic methods such as WeChat monetization, live broadcast, and star map advertising, Lin Kaikai said that teaching drainage is the fastest monetization method. Generally, if there are more than 100,000 fans, someone will come to bloggers to learn editing.

The blogger “Small Films and Big Films” is a typical case of monetizing through teaching and paying for content. He has millions of fans on several major video platforms, which is a rare account that can adapt to various platforms. In terms of monetization methods, “Small Movies and Big Movies” have been channeled to the official account to establish a paid column for film and television drama commentary. For example, six seasons of TV drama commentary, the first season is free to watch, and the next five seasons are paid to watch.

The film narration teaching class is also one of the main ways to realize “small films and big films”. The all-around class for film and television short video creators with a fee of up to 12,800 yuan. The training content includes introduction, film and television, copywriting, dubbing, editing, operation, and realization. When film commentary videos are becoming more and more the “code of wealth”, “teaching people to explain films” has also become a business with considerable income.

It is worth noting that the movie propaganda party will also take the initiative to cooperate with the film commentary, the propaganda party will take the initiative to give the film that needs to be edited, and then calculate the money based on the number of views. A netizen disclosed a bonus setting for submissions, showing that there is a bonus of 6,000 for broadcasts of more than 8 million, and a bonus of 1,500 for broadcasts of more than 1 million, and a bonus of three. A film commentary is solicited, and there are 39 accounts that can receive bonuses in total. In this case, Song Congcong said that he would not be found to constitute an infringement.

However, Lin Kaikai mentioned that Douyin is now suppressing clip numbers. “Because too many clip numbers have flooded in, a lot of millions of large numbers have been recruited some time ago and have been restricted.”

The marketing industry chain continues to expand, and many film commentary accounts are also focusing on film practitioners. Some insiders broke the news that a movie commentary account with 500,000 fans on the B station, Douyin, and Kuaishou platforms contacted him and was paid to write a film review copy about “Travel in Busan 2: Peninsula”. The copywriting requirements are: 1. Write the story of the movie in detail and clarify the main line of the story; 2. Let the audience know what kind of story it is; 3. Finally, make a simple summary of the movie, such as expressing the cruelty of human nature and the remaining beauty.

When the person expressed the need to analyze dry goods such as audiovisual language, light and shadow, and composition, the other party bluntly said “no need”. The person was quite indignant about this, “To a certain extent, the low level of our domestic movie audiences is inseparable from these marketing accounts from the media.”

“Second Creation” Boundary Struggle

As the largest “second creation” video website in China, the film and television area of ​​Station B also faces copyright issues. Judging from the ranking of popular videos in this area at station B, the types of decreasing popularity are film and television talks, film and television clips, short films, and trailer information. In other words, at station B, commentary videos are also the most popular.

Take the UP master “Muyu Shuixin”, whose total number of fans is second only to Bilibili’s official movie account, as an example. UP master planned the “Muyu Micro Theater” column to interpret “Please Answer 1988”, “Game of Thrones”, and “Rang Bullets”. “Fly”, “The Great Gatsby” and other film and television dramas, are broadcast in the order of 1 to 2 million. However, different from the marketing account on Douyin, the quality of the content of the B station film and television UP host is generally excellent. In addition to the explanation, they will add their own understanding and thinking of the film and output their own ideas.

UP Master Muyu Water Heart Video Works

But the boundary issue is still blurred. IQiyi has sued several times over the works of the second creation film and television drama of the B station UP. In 2016, the B station was not authorized to broadcast the “Happy Camp” which was bought out by iQiyi’s network information dissemination rights. At that time, the court decided to compensate for the economy. The loss was 57,000 yuan. In May 2018, iQiyi sued Station B again because the latter provided online broadcast services of “China Rip Hop” program clips on the platform without authorization.

Earlier in 2015, nine websites, including iQiyi and Douyu, sued Station B in the name of “violating the right to disseminate information on the work network.”

According to the information from Tianyan, there are 759 court announcements about station B. In addition to Beijing iQiyi, there are also multiple court announcements such as Beijing ByteDance Network Technology Co., Ltd. and Yongdi (Beijing) Information Consulting Co., Ltd. It is a “dispute over the infringement of the right to disseminate the information on the work network”. In addition, there are 793 related legal proceedings.

“Film commentary” is a form of creation that has existed since the beginning of the media era, and disputes about whether this form infringes copyright have never ceased.

The first-generation film commentary blogger “Gu Amo” who became popular because of “Watching Movie XXX in X Minutes” has also been involved in copyright disputes. In 2017, Gu Amo was sued by KKTV, Youshui Integration, Disney and other companies for infringement. Among them, Shui Chenggong said that more than 4 movies could not be shown in cinemas because of Gu Amo.

And Gu Amo argued that his video complies with the principle of fair use of online copyrights, is a secondary creation without infringement, and that the production of the video is to educate people who cannot understand the movie, rather than to gain profit.

After that, Gu Amo and the five companies entered the mediation stage. On July 31, 2019, Gu Amo went to the court again to attend the mediation meeting. Later, he revealed on Weibo that it would take two or three years for the whole thing to come to fruition. During this period, the case did not affect Gu Amo’s video update.

Regarding whether the “second creation” video constitutes infringement, the key lies in the boundary of the definition of “fair use”. Song Congcong believes that if it is only the simple removal of the original work, meaningless processing, it will definitely constitute infringement. However, if the secondary creator has made an original expression, he needs to consider whether it is fair use. If it is fair use, it does not constitute infringement.

According to my country’s “Copyright Law”, the fair use rules need to meet three requirements: (1) Specify the author’s name or title and the title of the work; (2) Must not affect the normal use of the work; (3) Have to reasonably damage the copyright The legitimate rights and interests of people. If the above conditions are met, it does not constitute infringement. The platform should allow it to publish, and the platform rules can be used to make traffic recommendations.

Earlier, an app called “Illustrated Movies” was sued by Youku. The software featured high-definition online graphic movie commentary, and it only takes 10 minutes to understand the content of a movie. Last year, the App was found to use screenshots of film and television dramas and simply introduce the plot, infringing the plaintiff’s right to disseminate information on the work network, and the court did not recognize the defendant’s defense of “fair use”.

In this case, the Graphic Movie APP uploaded a total of 382 screenshots of the first episode of the film and television series “Three Lives III: Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms” on Youku in 2017, which were played approximately 70,000 times.

The biggest highlight of the judgment in this case is that the court has clearly defined the “fair use” situation in the copyright law. The court held that the act of “providing works to the public by wired or wireless methods” stipulated in Article 10 (12) of the Copyright Law should not be narrowly interpreted as providing complete works to the public, because the copyright law protects It is an expression of originality. As long as the original expression of the work is used, it is under the control of the right of communication of the work’s information network.

Lawyer: The platform’s “safe harbor principle” cannot be abused

Attorney Zhu Jieping, founding partner of Taikunlu, told Sohu Technology that with regard to whether the secondary creation videos posted by users of the short video platform are deemed to be infringing, first of all, regardless of the degree of processing and production, as long as the copyright owner of the original film and television works has not been obtained Licensing, its reproduction and distribution constitute infringement. If the second creation video released by the user does not substantially alter the content of the original work, it is generally an infringement of the reproduction right, the right of distribution, and the right of information network dissemination. If the original work is altered to a large extent, in addition to infringement of reproduction rights, distribution rights, and information network dissemination rights, it may also infringe the original film and television work author’s right to modify, protect the integrity of the work, and the right to adapt.

“The law does not completely prohibit the second creation, but the second creation requires the permission of the copyright owner of the original film and television work, and the rights of the original copyright owner must not be infringed. If the second creation is permitted, the created video has a certain The originality of the novel may also constitute an adaptation of the work, and the secondary creator also has the copyright to the second created work.” Zhu Jieping said.

Lawyer Xia Hailong of Shanghai Shenlun Law Firm told Sohu Technology that according to the judging standards of Youku v. “Illustrated Movies” App, the above-mentioned so-called movie review accounts are essentially video versions of “Illustrated Movies.” It does not belong to the reasonable use of related film and television works, but a real violation of the right to disseminate the information on the work network, fearing compensation.

“Although these short videos that have been edited and spliced ​​are only a few minutes long, their materials are all from other film and television works, and the purpose of these short videos is to convey the main content of the original film and television works to users. This is bound to be As a result, some users who have watched short videos no longer watch the original film and television works.”

In Xia Hailong’s view, the fundamental reason why such cases are difficult to manage is that the short video platform itself applies the “safe haven” principle (the platform does not bear the liability for infringement until the right holder’s infringement notice is received). In the past, these short videos have often been disseminated on a large scale-in the face of interests, the platform may also turn one eye and close one eye. Traditional rights protection methods appear to be relatively lagging and cannot effectively prevent infringement.”

Song Congcong also believes that the “safe haven” principle cannot be used and is the key to solving the problem of infringement. He said that in addition to the “safe haven”, there is the “red flag” principle. If the fact of infringement is obvious, the short video platform still ignores it, and it will also be recognized as an infringement.

“It should be noted that the’safe harbor principle’ is only an expedient measure to balance the interests of rights holders, users, online platform parties, audiences and other parties. As a service provider, it provides information storage space in name, but it is actually The work implements information network dissemination behavior. As the biggest beneficiary of industry development, short video platforms should strengthen supervision and content review, and perform a high degree of care and responsibility for the regulation of short video dissemination behavior and the sound development of the industry.”

Song Congcong suggested that it is possible to cooperate with intellectual property departments and institutions to strengthen the copyright registration of short videos, strengthen infringement evidence collection and storage through blockchain and other technologies, and assist right holders in rights protection.