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Administrative Measures for Business Operations of Online Performance (2017)

网络表演经营活动管理办法

Type of laws Departmental rule

Issuing body Ministry of Culture and Tourism

Promulgating date Dec 02, 2016

Effective date Jan 01, 2017

Validity status Valid

Scope of application Nationwide

Topic(s) Cyber Law/Internet Law Content Regulation Entertainment Law

Editor(s) Xinzhu Li 李欣烛 Yanru Chen 陈彦茹

Administrative Measures for Business Operations of Online Performance entered into force on 1 Jan. 2017.

There are 27 articles in total. The Measures aim to regulate business operations of online performance. Key points of the Measures are as follows:

  1. Online performance refers to the online cultural products with on-site cultural and artistic performance and other activities as the main contents that are formed by real-time broadcasting or uploading and transmitting in the form of audio and video, via the internet, mobile communication networks, mobile internet, and other information networks.

  2. Business operations of online performance refer to the activities of providing online performance products and services to the public to obtain benefits.

  3. An entity engaging in business operations of online performance shall obtain a License for Cyber Culture Business Operations.

  4. Online performance shall not contain illegal contents, contents from hidden cameras, or contents that performed in a cruel manner.

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