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Tencent obtains interim injunctions for Infringement of
Broadcasting Right of the Olympic Games
腾讯公司因奥运赛事转播权被侵犯而提起诉讼
Date: 2021-08-12
Tencent is an authorized broadcaster of the Tokyo Olympics and
has the legal rights to broadcast Olympic events. Recently, Tencent
sued four defendants to the Tianjin Third Intermediate
People's Court claiming that they illegally broadcast the
Olympic events. Tencent argued that the Olympic events had high
popularity and a short-cycle, so infringers could forward and
spread a large number of short videos of the games in a short
period of time, taking a large amount of traffic and obtaining
illegal benefits. Therefore, Tencent filed a request for conduct
preservation (that is, an interim injunction).
