At the time of writing this blog (October 2021), copyright protection for online music in China is one of the highest in the world today, despite outdated information about this topic on Wikipedia from 2008 stating the opposite. If you’ve based your knowledge of music copyright in China on the first thing your Google search came up with without checking more sources, it may be you have perhaps felt suspicious about distributing your music to China. We have now started the process of updating the information on wikipedia. In the meantime, let us give you an overview of the current situation regarding music copyright in China.
By the way, if you are worried about your music’s copyright status in China, you can search if your music is already in China using our free finder tool here:
https://finder.musicinfo.io/
If your music is available in China, you use a reliable distributor, and you get royalty reports, your copyrights should be ok.
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