National Copyright Administration rectifies online music: stop unauthorized dissemination

strong > Industry insiders appreciate that it will promote the healthy development of online music. / strong >

in an interview with the media, the person in charge of a well-known online music service provider expressed appreciation for this move by the copyright Bureau, believing that it will promote the healthy development of online music in the long run. "in fact, these relatively large service providers do not have the intention and behavior of malicious infringement, and basically act in accordance with laws and regulations, just because the relevant laws and regulations are not complete enough at present. so in some things, we do not know whether it is an infringement, which leads to marginal ball behavior and the emergence of grey areas. If the copyright Bureau and other departments can give clearer and clearer restrictions like this in the future, our process of legalization will be faster and a healthy environment for sustainable development will be formed as soon as possible, and it will be the service providers themselves and the broad masses of music fans who will ultimately benefit. "

however, he also mentioned that the "notice" will certainly have some impact on the major service providers at the initial stage of operation, because each service provider's music library contains a certain number of music works that are not authorized by music companies. this is mainly the result of some music companies providing exclusive copyright to one or more service providers in order to get higher profits. "for example, Rolling Stones, for example, has too many rights to classic songs, but some service providers fail to get the license of the company and sometimes have to take risks in order not to lose in the competition. Therefore, if we really want to put an end to the source of online music piracy, the relevant government departments must also find ways to break the monopoly and achieve orderly competition. "

strong > the full text of the notice is as follows: / strong >

Internet music service providers:

in order to strengthen the protection of the rights of copyright owners of music works and standardize the copyright order of music works transmitted on the Internet, according to the copyright Law of the people's Republic of China, regulations on the Protection of the right of Information Network dissemination and measures for the implementation of copyright Administrative penalties As well as the work arrangements related to the "sword net 2015" special operation, the notice is as follows:

since July 2015, the National copyright Administration has launched a special rectification action to standardize online music copyright, strengthen the copyright law enforcement and supervision of online music service providers, and promote the establishment of a good online music copyright order and operational ecology.

in view of the serious situation of unauthorized dissemination of music works by Internet music service providers, all Internet music service providers are now ordered to stop the unauthorized dissemination of music works, and all unauthorized music works will be offline by July 31, 2015.

for online music service providers that continue to spread unauthorized music works after July 31, 2015, the National copyright Administration will strictly investigate and deal with them in accordance with the law.

hereby notify.

National copyright Administration

July 8, 2015