On January 25, 2022, the Tencent Anti Fraud Investigation Department released the "Tencent Group Anti Fraud Notification", stating that Zhang Meng, the leader of the PCG film and television content production department, was suspected of using his position to seek benefits for suppliers and collecting supplier benefit fees. His behavior violated the "Tencent High Voltage Line" and was dismissed. At the same time, he was transferred to the public security organ for suspected crimes. It is reported that Zhang Meng is a producer at Tencent Video Studio Tianpeng and has participated in many popular dramas such as "You Are My Glory", "Skyscraper", and "Let's Listen to Fengming".

Regarding the issue of whether the guarantors can recover from each other, the relevant legal provisions of China's security law have actually undergone an evolutionary process. According to Article 13 of the currently effective "Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on the Application of the Guarantee System in the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China", "... Except for the circumstances specified in the preceding two paragraphs, if a guarantor who has assumed the guarantee responsibility requests other guarantors to share the portion that cannot be recovered from the debtor, the people's court shall not support it.".

On December 29, 2021, following the explosion of a huge tax supplement fine by "Weiya", just over a week later, "Zhang Ting, Lin Ruiyang, and his wife's company were investigated and punished for pyramid selling" hit the hot spot, with a reading volume exceeding 780 million within 24 hours. This incident involves many legal issues. How do consumers protect their rights? What legal responsibilities will participants at all levels of the "pyramid selling" act bear, and how should they protect their legitimate rights and interests? Why can we continue to operate due to repeated complaints about product quality issues? Should we assume responsibility for product quality and how? Why is the market supervision and administration bureau responsible for the investigation rather than the public security organ? Are pyramid schemes suspected of committing crimes and what crimes may be involved? Many of the above legal issues involve various fields of civil, administrative, and criminal law, and require in-depth research and resolution by professionals.

On December 29, 2021, following the explosion of a huge tax supplement fine by "Weiya", just over a week later, "Zhang Ting, Lin Ruiyang, and his wife's company were investigated and punished for pyramid selling" hit the hot spot, with a reading volume exceeding 780 million within 24 hours. This incident involves many legal issues. How do consumers protect their rights? What legal responsibilities will participants at all levels of the "pyramid selling" act bear, and how should they protect their legitimate rights and interests? Why can we continue to operate due to repeated complaints about product quality issues? Should we assume responsibility for product quality and how? Why is the market supervision and administration bureau responsible for the investigation rather than the public security organ? Are pyramid schemes suspected of committing crimes and what crimes may be involved? Many of the above legal issues involve various fields of civil, administrative, and criminal law, and require in-depth research and resolution by professionals.

On December 29, 2021, following the explosion of a huge tax supplement fine by "Weiya", just over a week later, "Zhang Ting, Lin Ruiyang, and his wife's company were investigated and punished for pyramid selling" hit the hot spot, with a reading volume exceeding 780 million within 24 hours. This incident involves many legal issues. How do consumers protect their rights? What legal responsibilities will participants at all levels of the "pyramid selling" act bear, and how should they protect their legitimate rights and interests? Why can we continue to operate due to repeated complaints about product quality issues? Should we assume responsibility for product quality and how? Why is the market supervision and administration bureau responsible for the investigation rather than the public security organ? Are pyramid schemes suspected of committing crimes and what crimes may be involved? Many of the above legal issues involve various fields of civil, administrative, and criminal law, and require in-depth research and resolution by professionals.

Article 17 of the Copyright Law stipulates that "The copyright in cinematographic and teleplay works in audio-visual works shall be enjoyed by the producer", According to Article 7 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Civil Disputes over Copyright, it is stated that "natural persons, legal persons, or organizations without legal personality who sign their names on works or products shall be deemed to be the owners of copyright and copyright-related rights and interests, unless there is evidence to the contrary." We can deduce that the question of "who is the copyright owner of film and television works" should be very simple, and there are clear provisions in the law, A natural person, legal person, or unincorporated organization that signs the name "producer" on a film and television work is the copyright owner of the film and television work, which is often referred to as the copyright owner.

According to multiple media reports, on December 22, the public security authorities took criminal coercive measures against Chen on bail pending trial for alleged extortion. According to previous online rumors, Chen submitted a huge "breakup fee" request of 9 million yuan to Huo. Regardless of the course of the relationship between two people, it is not appropriate to comment on what is right or wrong in the relationship, since it is neither the party involved. However, as a legal person, the relevant legal issues that have initially surfaced in this case can be fully explored. It is believed that the general public will also raise questions such as "what fees can be recovered during a breakup", "whether one party can propose 'youth compensation' to the other party", and so on. Regarding the economic demands raised by one party during a romantic breakup, is it breakup negotiation or extortion? This article briefly discusses some related issues.

Editor's Note: The Zhejiang Provincial Taxation Bureau's Inspection Bureau made public to the public the online anchor Huang Wei (online name: Weiya)'s tax related violations from 2019 to 2020, and made a decision to pursue the payment of taxes, impose overdue fines, and impose a total penalty of 1.341 billion yuan, causing a public uproar. However, this matter was not sudden. As early as 2021, the State Administration of Taxation had issued multiple documents requiring practitioners in the live streaming marketing industry to conduct tax self-examination. From Weiya's apology letter, we can also see that Weiya conducted a tax self-examination this year. Here's a question: Why does Weiya still face tax administrative penalties after her self inspection? How can anchors in the process of self inspection avoid and resolve the risk of being identified as "tax evasion" in the remaining nine days? See discussion in this article for details.

Recently, lawyer Wang Lei, the director of Gaopeng Law Firm, accepted an exclusive interview with Pengpai News, recalling the story of his assisting previous negotiators in customs clearance, WTO accession negotiations, and representing China in the EU fastener anti-dumping case.