As the volume of AI-generated content keeps increasing, copyright disputes are also on the rise: 60% of related lawsuits are stuck due to unclear ownership, and Wajing Wanxiang aims to get through the full chain of "right confirmation, authorization and monetization".
Against the backdrop of the explosive boom of the AI-generated content industry, the threshold for content creation has been greatly reduced, but the difficulties in copyright confirmation, authorization and rights protection for AI-generated content have also become prominent. Many creators have fallen into the dilemma of facing infringement lawsuits and having their works taken down due to unclear ownership of AI-generated works. According to data from market research institutions (such as Fortune Business Insights and others), the generative AI market has exceeded 103.5 billion US dollars in 2025, and it is expected to further rise to about 161 billion US dollars by 2026, maintaining a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30% in the next few years. More than 60% of lawsuits are directly related to copyright ownership, and the commercial value of a large number of original and AI-generated content cannot be fully released. It is precisely targeting this industry pain point.
In August this year, the entrepreneurial team led by CEO Tian Liang officially launched the Wajing Wanxiang project, building a comprehensive service platform focused on the digital copyright sector, providing full-link copyright services for creators' portraits, music, various original works and AI-generated works, so that every creation can continuously generate compliant value.
Since the project was conceived and launched, its core team is composed of technical developers with Tsinghua University background, who are responsible for the overall technical development work. At present, the project product has taken shape and entered the MVP verification stage, and has reached preliminary cooperation intentions with both copyright buyers and sellers, as well as strategic cooperation covering copyright warehousing and large model copyright libraries. During the advancement of the project, the biggest problem encountered by the team is the capital pressure brought by advertising and marketing investment, and it also needs to cope with the homogeneous competition in the digital copyright track. In response to this situation, the team chooses to exchange time for space, steadily promote product polishing and market verification, and gradually build its own competitive barriers.
Wajing Wanxiang focuses on the core pain points that AI-generated content is prone to infringement lawsuits and being taken down, and builds a service system covering the whole process of right confirmation, authorization, monitoring and rights protection. The core service of the project connects global copyright buyers, provides compliant authorization matching services for both the supply and demand sides, and is also equipped with full-network infringement monitoring and professional rights protection support. Through whole-process records, every use can be traced, which ensures from the mechanism that creators can get due returns for the use of their works. Different from many platforms on the market that only provide right confirmation and evidence storage services, Wajing Wanxiang directly opens up the transaction link of copyright supply and demand matching, which can help creators quickly realize the commercial monetization of content, and also provide the demand side with a stable channel to obtain authorization in compliance.
In recent years, the scale of the global digital content industry has continued to grow, the market size of AI-generated content is also expanding rapidly, and the resulting demand for digital copyright services is also rising synchronously. As various content platforms have increasingly strict requirements for compliant copyrights, both individual creators and institutional content providers have put forward clear demands for clear and tradable digital copyright services. The track that Wajing Wanxiang enters has a broad incremental market space, which can help a large number of digital content that originally cannot circulate in compliance realize commercial value, and also promote the compliant development of the digital content industry.
Wajing Wanxiang currently adopts a clear matching transaction business model, which connects both copyright buyers and sellers, and collects transaction handling fees after facilitating authorized transactions as the main source of revenue. The project has not disclosed financing information for the time being, and is still in the early stage of development.
Regarding the entrepreneurial journey so far, founder Tian Liang said that digital copyright is the infrastructure that supports the healthy development of the digital content industry. The AI wave has brought brand new problems to the entire industry, and also brought brand new opportunities. Since its establishment, the team has targeted the most urgent pain points of creators, hoping to truly solve the practical problems of the industry, so that creators no longer have to worry about copyright issues and can create with peace of mind. The team will continue to polish the MVP, optimize product functions according to the feedback of partners, and gradually expand the scope of cooperation coverage. In the future, it will continue to improve the full-link copyright service capability, provide more creators with reliable channels for copyright value monetization, and promote the compliant development of the digital copyright industry.