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On August 16, Mita Technology published an article on its official WeChat account titled "It's over! We received a 28-page infringement notice from CNKI" and pinned the link to the top of "Mita AI Search".

In the article, MiTa stated that it received a 28-page infringement notification letter from China Academic Journal (CD-ROM Edition) Electronic Magazine Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "CNKI") on August 15, and attached the key parts of the notification letter.

In the notice, CNKI stated: "We have discovered that your company has provided users with our academic literature titles and abstract data in huge quantities through MiTa AI Search and MiTa AI Search APP. This behavior has not been authorized by our company and seriously infringes our legitimate rights and interests." "At the same time, we do not want our website China National Knowledge Infrastructure to be searched by MiTa Technology. Please immediately disconnect the link from the search results to our website. If you need business cooperation, please contact us."

CNKI sends infringement notice to Mita Mita official public account

According to the official website of Mita, Mita is a cutting-edge technology company in the field of artificial intelligence. It conducts research and development and product implementation in the fields of AI search, AI writing, legal translation, etc. The company has also independently developed a large language model MetaLLM based on its own business characteristics and technical accumulation. "Mita AI Search" is the first AI search engine on the entire network that has a dedicated "academic" search section.

Mita said in the article, "We are a small entrepreneurial team without exclusive resources, but we still have a little bit of ideals. We hope to use technology and do our best to make the process of knowledge discovery smarter and simpler, and make literature search faster and more accurate."

Mita also said, "The value of knowledge lies in its flow. Academic literature, as an important carrier of human intellectual achievements, is highly irreplaceable. If scientific literature becomes a luxury, it will be detrimental to the fair acquisition of knowledge and the development of scientific research."

With the development of generative artificial intelligence in recent years, the copyright issue of artificial intelligence has gradually emerged. Earlier this year, The New York Times filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and its investor Microsoft in the Southern District Court of New York, accusing the two of using millions of its articles to train artificial intelligence models without permission, which triggered heated discussions on the ownership of copyrights involving artificial intelligence. However, there are currently no legal regulations in my country.

Article 13 of the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that the copyright of works produced by adapting, translating, annotating and compiling existing works shall belong to the adapter, translator, annotator and compiler, but the copyright of the original work shall not be infringed when exercising the copyright. However, whether generative AI or AI owners can be regarded as the subject of rights is still controversial. my country's management of generative AI is concentrated in the Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative AI Services, which stipulates that generative AI service providers, when involving intellectual property rights, shall not infringe on the intellectual property rights enjoyed by others according to law.

However, Mita said in the article, "According to academic norms, the abstract and title of a document should be independent and self-explanatory, so that readers can obtain necessary information without reading the full text. The "Academic" section of Mita AI search only includes the abstract and title of the paper, but not the content of the article itself. To read the main text, you need to jump to the website through the source link."

"In recent years, the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), jointly promoted by the international academic, publishing and library and information communities, has been continuously promoting the free reading, downloading, copying, dissemination, printing and retrieval of academic literature." Mita said in the article, "Without search, there is no research. 'Knowledge discovery' is the first step in the knowledge dissemination chain."

Previously, CNKI was also embroiled in a copyright dispute. In 2021, a retired professor found that more than 100 articles he published were included by CNKI and required payment for download, so he sued CNKI in court. In May 2022, 15 writers jointly submitted a complaint to the Beijing Internet Court, accusing CNKI of publishing original works without authorization and seriously infringing the copyright of the original authors. CNKI insisted that it was not responsible and demanded a reduction in compensation.

In addition to being involved in many disputes, CNKI has also been condemned by society for suspected academic monopoly. On May 13, 2022, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued an announcement that it would investigate CNKI for suspected monopoly. In December of that year, the State Administration for Market Regulation made an administrative penalty decision in accordance with the law, ordering CNKI to stop illegal activities and imposing a fine of 87.6 million yuan.

However, Mita said in the article, "Even if we don't understand, we respect CNKI's choice. From now on, Mita AI search will no longer include the title and abstract data of CNKI documents, but will instead include the title and abstract data of documents from other authoritative Chinese and English knowledge bases. We also welcome other databases to cooperate and discuss."

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