In China, illegal music downloading from internet and pirated CDs make it hard for pop stars to earn money. That’s also a key reason why they “rely heavily on commercial performances, which make up more than half of...
From BBC News: The trade body representing the global record industry has launched piracy lawsuits against China’s biggest internet companies. Firms targeted in the legal action include Baidu, China’s largest...
China turned its attention to Karaoke copyright in 2006. Recently a government campaign continues to crack down the selling of sex and drugs and the use of unlicensed music, from AP: The “Sunshine Project,” which began Monday, comes as the Chinese capital prepares to welcome hundreds of thousands of visitors for the Beijing Olympics this […]
Who will bear the responsibility of pirated online music in China? Businessweek says that “Chinese search engines make it easy to steal Net Tunes.” Eric Zhu is just the sort of customer that Western music labels want to reach in China. The 28-year-old Beijing resident is a sales director for a local company and enjoys […]
From the Wall Street Journal: Everyone from Hollywood to Congress has been pressing China to get serious about the illegal use of music, movies and software. Now, it has picked a crackdown target: karaoke. If royalties were collected in China, the music industry could make as much as $375 million a year from karaoke parlors. […]
From USA Today: Yu Quan, like every music act in China, gets almost no income from CD sales, even though millions of its CDs have been sold. As soon as a CD is made, the pirates are on the street, offering them for a fraction of the retail price. Stores sell pirate copies. Legitimate CDs […]
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