GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - China
Wang Yan of iQIYI.com
Wang Yan (Rocky), is based in Beijing and is the Legal Director at iQiyi, one of the largest online video platforms in the world. Yan is an intellectual property specialist and has played an essential role leading the company’s increasingly tough stance on copyright infringement, overseeing a vast increase in the number of copyright cases and take-down notices filed by the company in the past few years. One recent high profile example is the USD4.4 million suit filed by iQiyi against Bytedance over alleged copyright violation relating to The Story of Yanxi Palace. 2018 marks an important year for iQiyi, having successfully completed its USD2.25 billion IPO on the Nasdaq, one of the largest IPOs globally this year.