KTV clubs in China will pay at most 1 per cent of their total income in the near future to copyright owners of the music videos they use, a senior official with the National Copyright Administration said yesterday.
The charge was initially fixed at 0.5 per cent of the yearly incomes of KTV clubs and still needs approval from the administration, Wang Ziqiang, spokesman for the administration, told a press conference.
Supervised by the administration, the Music Copyright Society of China and the China Audio-Video Collective Management Association, representing the music and music video copyright owners, will collect the copyright usage fees.
“Public hearing is not a must for the copyright fee charge as the fee is not collected by government but by copyright owners,” said Wang, director of the administration’s copyright department.
