State Council, the People's Republic of China

“ Article 5 The State shall apply a licensing system with respect to the production, import, export, distribution, and projection of movies and public projection of movies. No unit or individual shall, without permission, be engaged in the activities of production, import, distribution or projection of movies, or import, export, distribute or project the movies for which the license has not been obtained. The licenses or approval documents distributed in accordance with these Regulations shall not be leased, lent, sold, or transferred in any other form. ”

“ Article 65 Whoever fails to perform the obligation of paying the special fund for the development of the movie industry in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State shall be ordered by the administrative department for movies under the people’s government at the provincial level or above to make up the payment within a time limit, and a delay payment equaling 0.05% of the owed amount shall be added daily starting from the owing date. ”

“ Except as otherwise stipulated by laws or regulations, any unit or individual shall get authorization from the copyright owner before exploiting a film product by means of reproduction, distribution, projection, broadcast, publication, dubbing, adaptation or the like. ”