Nandu News reporter Lin JingwuOn the evening of March 1, Andy Lau's film company Yingyi Entertainment released a solemn statement on Andy Club** and related Xiaohongshu accounts on its official Weibo and a solemn statement on the AI synthetic voice infringement incident, which attracted the attention and heated discussions of netizens.
Andy Lau Film Company Yingyi Entertainment issued a statement.
Yingyi Entertainment mentioned in a solemn statement against Andy Club** and related Xiaohongshu accounts: Recently, some network entities have opened Xiaohongshu accounts: hzjlb20080618 in the name of Mr. Andy Lau's fan club, and set up group chats through online platforms to invite fans to become members, and even imitated the official ** of "Andy World" and pirated ** "Andy Club" (wwwawc618.Co) spread false information about Mr. Andy Lau's 2024 concert, and at the same time collected deposits from consumers for concert tickets, causing a bad impact.
The statement stated that the above-mentioned relevant entities used Mr. Andy Lau's name and portrait to invite fans to become members without the authorization and permission of Mr. Andy Lau and his agency, and deliberately imitated and plagiarized the design and content of "Andy World"**, which was really misleading to the public and blatantly infringed Mr. Andy Lau's portrait and name rights, as well as the copyright of the website of Mr. Lau's agency.
In addition, the infringing entity collected money from consumers in the name of ordering tickets for Mr. Andy Lau's 2024 concert, and had a member-exclusive Andy Lau 2024 touring commemorative T-shirt, deliberately leading relevant consumers to mistakenly believe that he was Mr. Liu's official **, or mistakenly believed that there was a similar business cooperation or license between him and Mr. Liu's brokerage company, which violated Article 6 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law and constituted commercial confusion, for which the Company reserves the right to pursue legal action.
At the same time, it strictly condemns and warns relevant parties to immediately stop the infringing acts, remove or delete all infringing content such as relevant infringing materials, and shall not publish any relevant false information on any other online platform. Relevant online platforms are also requested to take necessary measures in a timely manner to block and stop the dissemination of relevant infringing content. He also emphasized that any news about the pre-sale or public sale of concert tickets that has not been officially announced is untrue, and Mr. Andy Lau and the brokerage company have not authorized any individual or fan group to register a Xiaohongshu account, and the company will seriously investigate the legal liability of the above-mentioned relevant infringing entities through legal channels. At the same time, we hereby call on consumers and fans not to be deceived, rationally screen, and protect their legitimate consumer rights and interests.
Yingyi Entertainment issued a statement on the infringement of AI synthesized voices.
Twenty minutes later, @映艺娱乐 issued another solemn statement about the infringement of AI synthesized voices. The statement said: Recently, our company found that WeChat user "Andy Sharing Group" (*koh173) and its related ** number "Andy Assembly" forged Mr. Andy Lau's voice through information technology means, and without unauthorized permission, continuously released its clips and patchwork** on the WeChat platform, resulting in misunderstanding among the public, so as to achieve the purpose of using Mr. Liu's popularity to attract traffic, sell goods, and make profits. Nandu reporters noticed through the "Andy Assembly Number" that the account has posted Andy Lau-related information content many times, and the most concerned is "Andy's Letter to Fans", which has more than 50,000 likes.
Accounts that are alleged to be infringing.
The statement said that the act had seriously infringed on Mr. Andy Lau's portrait rights, name rights and voice rights, and was suspected of constituting fraud. Our company solemnly reminds all parties to be vigilant and avoid falling into this type of AI speech synthesis technology. For the infringement of the lawless person, we will take all necessary measures to investigate his legal responsibility, and will not tolerate it!
According to public information, Yingyi Holdings***Yingyi Group) was founded by Mr. Andy Lau in 2003 and is managed by an experienced team of professionals. The Group's business scope is very diverse, including: film and television programme production and distribution, ** production and publishing, artist management, advertising production, stage production and cultural projects. In addition, Yingyi also operates the International Song Fan Club and engages in intellectual property-related business.