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A |     DETROIT -- The United Auto Workers union significantly escalated its walkout against Detroit's Three automakers, shutting down Ford's largest factory and threatening Jeep maker Stellantis.In a surprise move Wednesday night, 8,700 members left their jobs at Ford’s Kentucky truck plant in Louisville.And Thursday morning, union President Shawn Fain hinted at further action against Stellantis. “Here's to hoping talks at Stellantis today are more productive than Ford yesterday,” Fain wrote on X, formerly Twitter, without saying what might happen.Ford's truck plant makes heavy-duty F-Series pickup trucks and large Ford and Lincoln SUVs, hitting the company's most lucrative products. The vehicles made at the plant generate $25 billion per year in revenue, the company said in a statement.Fain said in a statement that the union has waited long enough “but Ford hasn’t gotten the message” to bargain for a fair contract. “If they can’t understand that after four weeks, the 8,700 workers shutting down this extremely profitable plant will help them understand it,” Fain said.The strike came nearly four weeks after the union began its walkouts against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis on Sept. 15, with one assembly plant from each company. The company, however, called the strike expansion “grossly irresponsible” and said it has made strong wage and benefit offers to the union. It said the move puts about a dozen other Ford facilities at risk, as well as parts supply plants that together employ over 100,000 people.A Ford executive said the union called a meeting at the company's Dearborn, Michigan, headquarters Wednesday afternoon where Fain asked if the company had another offer. High-ranking Ford executives responded that they are working on possibly bringing electric vehicle battery plants into the UAW national contract, essentially making them unionized. But they didn't have a significantly different economic offer, the executive said. Fain was told the company put a strong offer on the table, but there wasn't a lot of room to increase it and keep it affordable for the business, the executive said.Fain responded by saying, if that's the company's best offer, “You just lost Kentucky Truck Plant,” said the executive. The meeting only lasted about 15 minutes, he said. In a video, Fain said the union moved because Ford didn't change its offer. “We've been very patient working with the company on this,” he said. “They have not met expectations, they're not even coming to the table on it.”The escalation against Ford shows that Fain is trying to increase pressure on the company, said Marick Masters, a business professor at Wayne State University who follows labor issues.But Ford and the other automakers have made concessions and raised wage offers, he said. The companies, he said, “may have reached their resistance points to varying degrees.” Executives, he said, have bottom line positions they can’t cross in terms of staying competitive with other automakers.Fain, Masters said, likely is testing how far he needs to push Ford before going to “full throttle,” by taking all 57,000 Ford members out on strike.The union’s move doesn’t leave him optimistic for a quick end to the strikes, Masters said. “I think the issues that remain on the table are quite thorny,” he said, pointing to union demands that all workers get defined benefit pensions and health insurance when they retire.The UAW expanded its strikes on Sept. 22, adding 38 GM and Stellantis parts warehouses. Assembly plants from Ford and GM were added the week after that. The Kentucky strike brings to 33,700 the number of workers on strike against the three automakers.Thus far, the union has decided to target a small number of plants from each company rather than have all 146,000 UAW members at the automakers go on strike at the same time.Last week, the union reported progress in the talks and decided not to add any more plants. This came after GM agreed to bring joint-venture electric vehicle battery factories into the national master contract, almost assuring that the plants will be unionized.Battery plants are a major point of contention in the negotiations. The UAW wants those plants to be unionized to assure jobs and top wages for workers who will be displaced by the industry’s ongoing transition to electric vehicles.Since the start of the strike, the three Detroit automakers have laid off roughly 4,800 workers at factories that are not among the plants that have been hit by the UAW strikes.The companies say the strikes have forced them to impose those layoffs. They note that the job cuts have occurred mainly at factories that make parts for assembly plants that were closed by strikes.The UAW rejects that argument. It contends that the layoffs are unjustified and were imposed as part of the companies' pressure campaign to persuade UAW members to accept less in negotiations with automakers. The factories affected by layoffs are in six states: Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Indiana and New York. Sam Fiorani, an analyst with AutoForecast Solutions, a consulting firm, said he thinks the layoffs reflect a simple reality: The automakers are losing money because of the strikes. By slowing or idling factories that are running below their capacities because of strike-related parts shortages, Fiorani said, the companies can mitigate further losses.“It doesn’t make sense to keep running at 30% or 40% of capacity when it normally runs at 100%,” he said. Striking workers are receiving $500 a week from the union’s strike pay fund. In some states, laid-off workers could qualify for state unemployment aid, which, depending on a variety of circumstances, could be less or more than $500 a week. Fiorani said that as the strikes widen, more workers will likely be laid off at non-striking plants. Separate companies that manufacture parts for the automakers are likely to have laid off workers but might not report them publicly, said Patrick Anderson, CEO of the Anderson Economic Group in Lansing, Michigan. A survey of parts supply companies by a trade association called MEMA Original Equipment Suppliers found that 30% of members have laid off workers and that more than 60% expect to start layoffs in mid-October.。    图源：晋江中文网然而这些漫画图片并没有那么“正规”，不少盗版商会将正版漫画截图后进行调整，制作成图集二次贩卖，或者是将用户吸引到公众号，让用户购买自己的付费阅读服务，用以比正版引进漫画更贵的价格收看相关的内容。为了不被正版漫画平台通过搜索发现，这类盗版商在制作广告视频的时候，通常会将正版的漫画标题改个名，甚至会修改漫画图片中出现的原作标题。而这也让读者在网络上搜索时，无法找到正版平台的内容或资源。

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C | 而且由于盗版商修改了漫画的标题，这些用户即使意识到读的是盗版漫画，也难以在网上寻找到正版的漫画资源。版权保护，这已经是一个老生常谈的问题，随着移动时代的到来，内容形式多种多样的变化，也给各个版权保护工作带来了各种困难。虽然各个内容平台一直在想办法保护自己的版权，但在巨大的利益驱使下，想通过围追堵截来完全保护显然是做不到的事情，于是各个平台便开始将目标转移到了读者身上。

D | 从小说到漫画，各个内容平台都开始尝试在内容中增加专属内容，扩大正版产品与盗版产品差异，以保护自己的版权内容。以阅文集团的起点来说，这家成立多年的网络小说平台一直在于各种盗版小说网站斗智斗勇。而为了让更多的用户选择在正版平台阅读，起点近几年来可谓是下足了功夫。先是在小说中加入本章说功能，让正版用户可以随时随地进行交流，提高用户留存。之后又加入了配音功能，提升用户的阅读体验，也增加相应的乐趣。而这些功能成功的将一部分喜欢交流的用户留在了起点平台。
起点《本章说》功能可以更好的吸引读者 图源：起点中文网除了小说，不少漫画平台也在内容之外增加了一些新的功能，多为弹幕或者是评论交流平台，让用户可以围绕漫画内容进行交流。这些功能都是盗版内容平台无法提供的，自然也为正版平台吸引了不少的读者。

E | 不过说到底，这些和盗版商抢读者的手段也只能起到一部分作用，想要对盗版商造成一定的打击，还要从他们做广告的平台入手。不少短视频平台在审核视频内容时，并不太在意其中的版权内容，特别是一些安利向的内容。而出现在评论区的引导二维码或者是链接更是不少盗版商避免被审查的重要方法之一。

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图源：抖音官网版权保护是一个老生常谈的问题，他需要的不仅仅是用户版权意识的提高，更需要的，是平台所做出的努力。抖音平台经过多年的发展，已经逐步成长为最知名的短视频平台之一，而唯有做好对内容生态的保护，才能让抖音持续健康地发展。

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