The karaoke royalty charge my province begin Hardball. News from yesterday's China audiovisual copyright collective management society (hereinafter referred to as the tone set Association) held in Fuzhou of Fujian description briefed, five KTV enterprises into my province first batch for not paying copyright royalty Tribunal by resorting to karaoke.
Journalists from description briefed, since 2007 startup fees, up to now, our province has only rolls, Fuzhou, Xiamen, mile, as well as, the Quanzhou company, turned over a total of 4 companies, whereas the province's royalties over 1500 KTV.
5 Enterprise first into the defendant
Description of the meeting, the tone set Association Vice Director Chen Peng, Fuzhou 5 KTV enterprises are the courts is a landmark event.
According to introduction, the middle of last month, Fuzhou music down the music world, good enjoy singing self-help KTV, Le Cool Orange self-service KTV, new smelter will Club, big dreams, Dunhuang KTV 5 home karaoke, without permission, for profit, infringing uses the go Quartet, the Crescent Moon "24 first karaoke music and music video works, is China's music copyright Association v. to Fuzhou City intermediate people's Court.
On the same day, the five karaoke undertakings have also been other right holders — tone set Association Member unit of Beijing under the tianyu simultaneous information technology co., Ltd. v. to Fuzhou City intermediate people's Court, is from the same v. allegedly infringing the copyright of the plaintiff's right to play the BEAUTYUPMYLIFE "total 20 first MTV music video works. Both the plaintiff requested the Court to order the defendant to stop infringement, removed from the library, the infringing works and to five defendants claimed a total of $ 70 million. Currently, Fuzhou City intermediate people's Court has accepted this group of cases, and the hearing will be held in the near future. Allegedly, earlier, related rights-holders to karaoke undertakings in favour of the tort action are.
It is understood that the defendant before the Court of 5 KTV enterprise is my province first batch for not paying copyright royalty by civil action of karaoke.
The industry concerned is the subject of the second charge
Contact the reporters yesterday 5 family has become the accused KTV enterprises, but are not received when the deadline for reply. Fuzhou Wusi Road a large KTV official said, the royalty is not a national mandatory nor functional departments directly involved in, the only Chinese Yinzhuxie, tone set Association, the industry authority on this fee generally questions so we all wait-and-see attitude, wait for events to further clarified.
Interview, KTV business leaders that their core concerns are threefold: first, it is your turn, others do not; the second is to seek better prices; 3 you worry about Enterprise SSO to the tone set Association, but royalties will not be a second tone set Association, the third tone set Association jumped out to continue charging.
Undertakings once they could somewhat difficult
It is understood that if the tone set Association published 2009 karaoke copyright royalty rates, the province's copyright royalty fees 9.3 Yuan/day · Terminal (balcony), a 50 room of medium-sized KTV will pay each month near 1.4 million. "Such a charge may be made a lot of companies are exhausting. "Interview with KTV operators once they could.
In this regard, the code sets the Association alleged that the set of Fujian Trina from tone, in Fujian Federation authorised administrative divisions for KEs of copyright royalty collection and delivery service for positive pay copyright royalty business operators will consider 9.3 Yuan/day · Terminal standard for certain offers, specific criteria will be developed and introduced.
It was introduced, Fujian Trina itself does not collect the money, but by the Enterprise directly to cost to codes set Association provides consolidated accounts, the accounts of the Association and by the tone set company, Fujian, Beijing Tianhe Tianhe third-party supervision, tone set Association will follow a portion of the costs are divided into two parts, one for each music publishing company, another part to the song of songs and author.
Copyright fees encountered "distribution door"
Since may, for a singer that China has not received a sound set of royalties, so the karaoke royalty charge encounters "distribution door" events, media questioned the tone set Association carried out karaoke charges and the allocation of work. Tone set association responsible person on this response, according to the provisions of the copyright law, karaoke singing operation, involving the record companies and music is the author of the show, performing rights, and the singer as a performer, not directly from the karaoke singing copyright royalties in charge, based on their and the record company agreed to obtain the appropriate remuneration.
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