China Network Music ‘guidelines’
p2pnet.net News:- China’s ‘Guidelines on the Development and Management of Network Music’ issued last week by the Ministry of Culture, “have the stated purpose of preventing problems, such as poor quality, pirated uploads and downloads,and content that “offends” ethnic groups or ‘affects social stability’,” says Xinhua.
Network music is music distributed by wired or wireless means, including music played or downloaded, and provided by mobile phone servers and through cable TV and satellite communication, says the story.
But some people are wondering.
“Wang Xiaofeng, chief writer of Lifeweek Magazine and a popular blogger, wrote in his blog that the standards of Internet users – and not regulative orders – were the best to judge the quality of on-line music,” says the story. “He claimed that fighting piracy and copyright infringement was the work of copyright authorities, not cultural authorities, and argued that society was not so vulnerable that it could be affected by a few songs.”
A “chief operator of a large Internet portal” told the People’s Daily it’s, “awaiting further details from the ministry on how to regulate the music products of ordinary people,” adds Xinhua: “The guidelines also require all imported network music products distributed in China to be approved and registered by the ministry.
Network music, “is a growing cultural phenomenon that shortens the distance between listeners and singers and supplements the content of commercial music,” it has Hainan University associate professor Wang Lin saying. “I hope the guidelines will boost – and not hinder – its development.”
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Also See:
Xinhua – On-line music regulations questioned, December 19, 2005
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