Company: TME
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000950170-25-056949
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Company: Tencent Music Entertainment Group
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
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, especially the “notice and take-down” policies, are properly implemented in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, our failure to obtain complete copyright licenses for user-generated content does not constitute a violation of current PRC copyright law.
We also actively enforce our rights against third-party platforms that infringe upon our content rights, using a combination of human and machine monitoring to detect unauthorized use of copyrighted content on other platforms. More specifically:
• Monitoring. Powered by our advanced audio and video fingerprinting technology and massive data base, we are able to continuously screen and identify infringing content displayed on third-party platforms in China.
• Enforcement of our rights. When our system identifies an infringing use of our content on a third-party platform, our system automatically generates an alert email to our legal and copyright protection personnel, which promptly serves a take-down notice to the infringing platforms requesting that the infringing content be removed. Following the take-down notice, our legal and copyright protection personnel will review the relevant evidence and initiate the removal procedures to ensure timely removal of infringing content, and they may also file complaints with the National Copyright Administration or initiate legal proceedings.
• Follow-up. Once a take-down notice is served or a legal proceeding initiated, our copyright system starts to track the relevant platforms to check if the infringing content has been timely removed.
Other Intellectual Property
In addition to copyrights of our content, other intellectual property is also critical to our business. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws in China and other jurisdictions, as well as confidentiality procedures and

contractual provisions, to protect the Group’s intellectual property rights. As of December 31, 2024, the Group had applied for 5,159 patents, among which 3,013 patents have been granted by the China National Intellectual Property Administration and overseas. One of the Group’s patents has been recognized with the Nineteenth China Patent Award, one of the Group’s patents has been recognized with the Twenty-second China Design Award, two of the Group’s patents have been recognized with the twenty-third China Patent Awards, two of the Group’s patents have been recognized with the twenty-fourth China Patent Awards, and one of the Group’s patents has been recognized with the twenty-fifth China Patent Award, by the China National Intellectual Property Administration. In addition, one of the Group’s patents was granted the Eighth Guangdong Patent Silver Award by the People’s Government of Guangdong Province. As of December 31, 2024, the Group had applied for 6