Chinese creator on TikTok gets millions of views with fast movie that summarizes a movie in minutes

Chinese creators of TikTok have produced many ``fast movies'' that summarize the contents of the movie in just a few minutes by adding subtitles and narration separately after using the video and images of the movie without permission. It turns out that many of them have been played several million times.

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In the Chinese-speaking world, fast movies have been popular for several years on video SNSs such as Douyin, Kuaishou, and bilibili. However, as a result of intensified competition, Chinese creators have advanced to TikTok, which is an international version of Douyin and is prohibited from being used in China.

In response to an interview with the news site Rest of World, according to the creator who called himself 'Wilson' without revealing his full name, the material was obtained from Chinese platforms such as Douyin, and after making a summary script in Chinese, DeepL etc. The content is converted into English using the translation service of , the narration is made with the dubbing application Moyin, and it is finished with Adobe Premiere. In order to escape TikTok's pirated version detection, it seems that some frames are also processed to delete or invert. Mr. Wilson, who operates 10 TikTok accounts, said he earns about $ 1,400 (about 200,000 yen) a month.

Also, a creator named 'Bi' uses a VPN to operate two TikTok accounts in the UK and earns 300 pounds (about 46,000 yen) a month.

Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bi also offer paid courses to teach others skills, and many housewives looking for ways to make money in their spare time are taking them. In recent years, he has started making clips in German, French, Spanish, and Indonesian as well as English.

The narration of the created clip is machine voice, and there are sometimes translation mistakes, but it is said that thousands to millions will be played. In fact, the summary video of the movie ' All About Lily ' directed by Tom Hoover and starring Eddie Redmayne released in 2016 has been played more than 4 million times.

China's regulator, the China Netcasting Services Association, has ordered short-video apps to ban posting clips of movies and TV shows without licenses, but said there has been no crackdown by copyright holders outside China. Thinking creators did not stop posting, and iQiyi, a video streaming service, chose to collaborate in the form of having a clip posted on 抖音 put a link to the original work distributed on iQiyi.

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TikTok did not comment on this matter.

Rest of World introduces the words of Larry Zaner, an entertainment-related lawyer in Los Angeles, who said, ``If the popularity of derivative works increases, there is a high possibility that we will consider a licensing agreement with TikTok.'' Zahner said trying to get paid from creators who post clips is like ``whack-a-mole'' and not worth the effort.