According to Sconnect, the copyright dispute between the owners of Wolfoo and Peppa Pig remains very complicated.

EO, the owner of Peppa Pig, has not observed international laws or respected the valid judgment of the Moscow Court, and continues to abuse YouTube’s policy to conduct a copyright strike, causing service disruption and serious losses to Sconnect’s Wolfoo system.

YouTube also did not respect the valid judgment of the Moscow Court or Vietnamese Laws, including Article 114 of Decree 17/2023/ND-CP, and still accepts an unreasonable copyright claim from EO, which led to the deletion of more than 3,000 Wolfoo videos on YouTube. 

Also, it blocked the right to upload many Wolfoo channels (the channels had resumed in early 2023 after YouTube reconsidered the claims by Sconnect).

A source from Sconnect said the copyright dispute caused a loss of $10 million to Sconnect from early 2022 to the end of July 2023. At present, the game firm has losses of $1 million a month.

In the same dispute case, the behavior of Apple and TikTok is different from YouTube’s.

According to Sconnect’s report to VDCA (Vietnam Digital Communications Association) in October 2022, on October 27, 2022, TikTok Vietnam channel of Wolfoo received a warning that EO repeatedly broke copyright on the channel. 

Soon after receiving the warning, Sconnect sent legal records to prove its legal ownership over the Wolfoo character to TikTok. After considering the documents provided by Sconnect, TikTok solved the problem and Wolfoo on the TikTok channel has not been affected.

Similarly, in late 2022, EO filed a copyright claim about Wolfoo Game on the App store (though Wolfoo Game was not the subject for the copyright dispute in the case of EO suing Sconnect at the UK High Court). 

After Sconnect sent legal records to prove its legal ownership over the Wolfoo character to the legal department of the App Store, the platform did not accept the claims by EO.

Recently, Sconnect lodged a petition to Vietnam’s competent agencies to ask for support to talk to YouTube to encourage them to stop receiving requests on an unfounded copyright strike from EO, and request YouTube to restore more than 3,000 deleted Wolfoo videos.

Chair of the Vietnam Digital Communications Association (VDCA) Nguyen Minh Hong on August 2, 2023 signed a document sent to the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information (ABEI), Copyright of Vietnam (COV), National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP) and National Competition Commission, requesting to consider related records in the copyright related to animated characters Wolfoo and Peppa Pig to protect the Vietnamese business in the digital environment.

Le My