(Yicai Global) Nov. 15 -- Chinese internet behemoth Tencent Holdings and Douyin, the Chinese version of the TikTok app, recently held talks that could resolve the issue of copyrighted content sharing.

Shenzhen-based Tencent expressed the hope to allow third-party content creators to share some short videos of its copyrighted films and television shows on Douyin, helping the short video platform to enhance its content ecology, the app said on Nov. 12.

Douyin, run by Beijing-based ByteDance, said it was pleased to share Tencent’s content as it will help improve the experience of both companies’ users, adding that it hopes Tencent will resume the sharing and log-in functions for ByteDance’s Douyin and Xigua Video apps on its social media platform WeChat.

Tencent is encouraging creators to make videos with its copyrighted content in a legal and compliant manner for posting not only on its platforms, but also on third-party sites, it said later. Tencent did not comment on resuming the sharing and log-in functions for Douyin and Xigua Video.

In September, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology told the country’s tech titans, including Tencent, ByteDance, and Alibaba Group Holding, that their super-apps must stop blocking rivals’ links and services from being shared on their platforms.

Prohibiting the practice of so-called Walled Gardens, the anti-competitive blocking of external links, aims to bring companies back to the starting point, ultimately achieving interconnection and stimulating economic and social innovation, which may lead to deep changes in China’s internet ecology, internet observer Yin Sheng told Yicai Global.

Editor: Futura Costaglione