Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC) announced recently that it has charged copyright royalties of 170 million yuan in 2015, up 24% over 2014. As of now, the total royalties has reached 1.06 billion yuan since it was established for 23 years.

The statistics of MCSC show that if the royalties were divided by rights, there were four rights including reproduction right, the right of derivation, broadcast right and right of dissemination via information networks.

Among the royalties charged in 2015, the proportion for those four rights accounted for 5%, 41%, 23% and 27% respectively. The rest 4% were from the Society in overseas.