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China orders “cleanup” of online music, WSJ says

Source: VentureBeat

Sep 04, 2009

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The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s Ministry of Culture has set out to conduct a massive clean up of what it claims on its website are problems with ”the intermingling of good and bad content,” “the large quantity of imported music without approval,” plus copyright violations and a ”lack of supervision and regulation over market behavior.”

Here’s the 100-word version of Beijing-based WSJ journo Loretta Chao’s report:

The government already censors imported movies and books, and vets set lists for foreign bands that play concerts here like the Rolling Stones. The rule, issued late Thursday, sets up what could be an enormous bureaucratic task. It requires that all music from outside China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, must be submitted to the ministry by the end of the year. Online music distributors will be required to provide written lyrics for each song, translated into Chinese, and documents to prove they aren’t infringing on intellectual property rights, the ministry notice said. In addition, companies wishing to provide music download services

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