Tencent announced its cooperation with Douyin to allow the use of live broadcast copyrights. 'Honor of Kings' may start live broadcast on January 20

News from this site on January 12, according to 36 Krypton reports, the live broadcast copyright of Tencent’s game “Honor of Kings” will soon be opened to the Douyin platform.

It is reported that a person close to the Douyin game live broadcast revealed, "The latest news is that Honor of Kings will be launched on January 20th. Although it is not 100% certain, it will definitely be launched before the year.”

According to a Tencent related person, the negotiations between the two parties are nearing completion, but due to some procedures that have not been completed, there is a certain delay in progress. At the same time, according to people familiar with the cooperation between the two parties, the cooperation between Tencent Games and Douyin is gradually expanding.

The report pointed out that Douyin game live broadcasts began to be classified in December last year. The Honor of Kings, League of Legends and other sectors have designated responsible persons, and these responsible persons have begun to communicate with some major live streaming guilds and MCN organizations. .

According to our understanding, the conflict between Tencent’s “Honor of Kings” and Douyin Live can be traced back to 2016. Tencent was Toutiao Company and its parent company ByteDance were sued to the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court for allegedly infringing the copyright of "Honor of Kings".

The court found that Tencent provided sufficient evidence to prove that Xigua Video App broadcast "Honor of Kings" live. Therefore, the relevant companies were required to stop live broadcasting the game from January 31, 2019.

According to the civil ruling, the court issued an injunction on January 31, 2019, requiring "Yuncheng Sunshine Culture Media Co., Ltd.", "Today's Toutiao Co., Ltd." and The three companies "Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., Ltd." immediately stopped live broadcasting the "Honor of Kings" game content on the "Xigua Video" App.

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