The karaoke royalty encounter "distribution": standard too high details unknown

Our copyright fees already KTV controversy in more than two years have passed, but the implementation of the results are not satisfactory. Recently, about how copyright fees levied KTV, the charging of royalties for the allocation of KTV, China Association of audiovisual copyright collective management should extract percentage as operating costs and other issues once again aroused widespread interest.
Charges two years always contested
According to the requirements of the national copyright administration, national karaoke business from 1 January 2007 to begin paying copyright royalty rates are per room, rooms $ 12 per day. In China the audiovisual copyright collective management societies ("tone set Association) was formally established by an earlier generation charging for karaoke. Since February 2007, an order in Yunnan province, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Shandong, Beijing, Guangdong and other start up karaoke copyright licenses and fees.
The karaoke royalty charge work from the beginning of the dispute, subject to charges KTV business legitimacy, fees, a fee management, etc. In February 2007, Guangzhou over 100 stars announced that resist to pay copyright fee, many cities of KTV enterprises have similar behavior.
2008 June 24, tone set Association was officially established, full name as an inherited previously carried out the work of the charges, in the Mainland except Tibet Autonomous Region of the country's 30 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) are established for the copyright owner to receive karaoke royalty team.
Tone set Association established a major "moves" is a nationwide for refusing to pay royalties to rights of KTV business, proceedings of the national prosecution has hundreds of KTV operators. In the recently announced "2008 China's intellectual property rights in the Community list" award, "KTV copyright litigation storm" entered the "2008 China's intellectual property rights of the most influential event for the year."
Charging excessive has always been strong KTV enterprises. According to the original contact station of Guangdong Province, China audiovisual legal Tang Hong-Wei, the karaoke royalty charge in association with explicit demands inside, 2007 each private room minimum $ 4 per day, minimum $ 6 in 2008, this is the bottom line, while the Shenzhen has been performed in every rooms $ 8 per day minimum.
Guangzhou culture entertainment industry Association 2008 annual and charges reached two years $ 4/day/private room charge. But in November 2008, Guangzhou KTV near 40 large undertakings collective discussion, decided to refuse to pay the royalties of 2007, on the grounds that the charges subject codes set Association may 2008 was founded; at the same time the overthrow of the two-year $/day/4 rooms, grounds for questioning the charging unit Tianhe Guangzhou Branch of legitimacy.
The karaoke royalty implementation has more than two years, but in many parts of the performance is still not satisfactory. According to media reports, as of now, Shenyang city, nearly 500 KTV enterprises have yet to pay copyright fees; Feb. 2009, Xinjiang's KTV royalty is still accepting "no" particles.