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Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 2020

    China Literature’s “draconian contract” sparks authors’ “May 5 Stop-Updating Day”

    After a management change in 2020, China Literature introduced a new version of its author contract that was accused of requiring authors to relinquish all copyrights and adaptation rights and of promoting a free-reading model that harmed authors’ revenue shares, triggering protests by many online literature authors, who launched “May 5 Stop-Updating Day.” China Literature subsequently held a writers’ symposium and promised to revise the contract. The relationship between platforms and authors in the online literature industry drew widespread discussion.

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