Company: TME
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000950170-25-056949
Chunk: 181

Company: Tencent Music Entertainment Group
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 181
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. Key Information — 3.D. Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business and Industry — China’s internet, music entertainment and long-form audio industries are extensively regulated. Our failure to obtain and maintain requisite licenses or permits or to respond to any changes in policies, laws or regulations may materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operation.”
On July 10, 2023, seven governmental authorities including the CAC published the Provisional Measures on AI-Generated Content Services, or the AIGC Measures, which imposes compliance requirements for providers of generative AI services. The AIGC Measures provide, among other things, that any provider of generative AI services shall assume its responsibility as a producer of network information content in accordance with the law and fulfill its obligation of network information security. Besides, providers of generative AI services with attribute of public opinions or capable of social mobilization shall conduct security assessment and complete the formalities for algorithm filing, change or deregistration in accordance with the relevant regulations. Non-compliance with the AIGC Measures may subject the providers of generative-AI services to penalties, including warning, public denouncement, rectification orders and suspension of the provision of relevant services.
On September 24, 2024, the State Council issued the Regulations on Network Data Security Administration, which require network data processors offering generative artificial intelligence services to enhance the security management of training data and its processing activities, and to implement effective measures to prevent and address network data security risks.
Regulations on Intellectual Property Rights
Copyright
China has enacted various laws and regulations relating to the protection of copyright. China is also a signatory to some major international conventions on protection of copyright and became a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the Universal Copyright Convention in October 1992, and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights upon its accession to the World Trade Organization in December 2001.
The Copyright Law of the PRC, adopted in 1990 and revised in 2001, 2010 and 2020 respectively, or the Copyright Law, and its implementing regulations adopted in 2002 and amended in 2011 and 2013, provide that Chinese citizens, legal persons, or other organizations will, whether published or not, enjoy copyright in their works, which include music works. Copyright will generally be conferred upon the authors, or in case of works made for hire, upon the employer of the author. Copyright holders enjoy personal