Kitajski regulator prepoveduje Tencentu ekskluzivne pravice v spletni glasbi

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s market regulator on Saturday said it would bar Tencent Holdings Ltd from exclusive music copyright agreements and fined the company for unfair market practices in the online music market after its acquisition of China Music Corporation.

The Chinese government has been stepping up antitrust actions in recent months against the country’s large tech companies, including a record $2.75 billion fine on e-commerce giant Alibaba for engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.

Tencent in Tencent Music Entertainment Group, enota, ki je nastala s prevzemom, sta dejala, da bosta spoštovala odločitev in izpolnjevala vse regulativne zahteve.

The State Administration Of Market Regulation (SAMR) said it had investigated Tencent’s activities in the online music broadcasting platform market in China, in which music copyright is the core asset, in a notice posted on its official website.

Reuters reported in mid-July that the antitrust regulator would order Tencent’s music streaming arm to give up exclusive rights to music labels that it has used to compete with smaller rivals, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

Tencent je imel po prevzemih več kot 80 % virov ekskluzivne glasbene knjižnice, je dejal regulator, kar je povečalo njegov vpliv na avtorskopravne stranke in mu omogočilo omejevanje novih udeležencev, je dejal regulator.

SAMR je dejal, da Tencent in njegova povezana podjetja ne smejo sklepati izključnih pogodb o avtorskih pravicah z zgornjimi lastniki takšnih pravic, medtem ko je treba obstoječe pogodbe prekiniti v 30 dneh po regulativnem obvestilu.

Regulator je Tencentu naložil tudi plačilo globe v višini 500,000 juanov (77,150 USD).

Earlier this month, the regulator said it would block Tencent’s plan to merge the country’s top two videogame streaming sites, Huya and DouYu , on antitrust grounds.

(1 USD = 6.4808 kitajskih juanov renminbi)

(Poročata Engen Tham in Zoey Zhang iz Šanghaja; montaža Edmunda Klamanna)

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