An online store merchant made an illegal profit of 5.44 million yuan by selling pirated Ultraman and was ordered to pay 800,000 yuan

According to Tianyancha App, the first-instance legal documents regarding copyright ownership and infringement disputes between Shanghai Xinchuanghua Culture Development Co., Ltd. and Du Mou and others were recently made public.

The document shows that the plaintiff Xinchuanghua Company claimed that the defendant Du used a total of more than 360 "Ultraman" artworks in the shop he operated without permission by copying and modifying them, and used them as packaging and decoration for the goods and pages sold in the shop, and used them for commercial advertising.

After investigation, the court held that the defendant Du uploaded and used the images of Ultraman and his props that were identical or substantially similar to the plaintiff's works in the online store for the purpose of profit-making sales promotion, infringing the plaintiff's information network dissemination rights. He sold copies of the plaintiff's Ultraman and his props that were identical or substantially similar to the plaintiff's works to the public, infringing the plaintiff's right to distribute the works in the case. The defendant's total sales of the alleged infringing goods involved in the case amounted to 5.44 million yuan, and the court will use sales as an important reference for determining the amount of compensation.

The judgment in this case is that the defendant shall compensate the plaintiff Xinchuanghua Company for economic losses and reasonable expenses of 800,000 yuan within ten days from the date when the judgment takes effect.