Company: TME
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000950170-25-056949
Chunk: 21

Company: Tencent Music Entertainment Group
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 21
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 — Regulations — Regulations on Intellectual Property Rights — Copyright.”
We may not have complete licenses for the copyrights underlying a small portion of the content offered on our platform at any given time. As a result, we may be subject to assertions by third parties of infringement or other violations by us of their copyright in connection with such content. A portion of the content was uploaded voluntarily by users or performers, and our inability to obtain complete copyright licenses for such content was mainly because the relevant copyright owners cannot be accurately identified despite

of our proactive efforts to locate such copyright owners. See “— We allow user-generated content to be uploaded on our platform. If users have not obtained all necessary copyright licenses in connection with such uploaded content, we may be subject to potential disputes and liabilities.”
In addition, with respect to the musical compositions and lyrics we license from certain content partners, including the MCSC, there is no guarantee that such content partners have the rights to license the copyright underlying all music content covered by our agreements. Pursuant to an agreement entered into between us and MCSC in April 2025, for any musical compositions and lyrics that the MCSC was not explicitly authorized to sublicense to us, the MCSC has undertaken to resolve such disputes and compensate the relevant copyright owners from infringement claims made by third-party rights owners against us for using their content on our platform if the infringement occurred since the expiry of the framework agreement we previously entered into with MCSC. Despite such undertakings by the MCSC, there is no guarantee that we will not be subject to potential copyright infringement claims by third parties in relation to content licensed from the MCSC.
We allow user-generated content to be uploaded on our platform. If users have not obtained all necessary copyright licenses in connection with such uploaded content, we may be subject to potential disputes and liabilities.
We allow users to upload user-generated content on our platform, which exposes us to potential disputes and liabilities in connection with third-party copyright. When users register on our platform, they agree to our standard agreement, under which they agree not to disseminate any content infringing on third-party copyright.
Historically, we have allowed users to upload content anonymously and over the years accumulated a large amount of content, including user-generated content originally uploaded or otherwise provided to our platform by users who may not have obtained proper and complete copyright licenses from the ultimate rights holders. Given the large amount of such content, the way they were uploaded by users and the passage of time since they were initially uploaded, it is generally impracticable for us to accurately identify