The copyright collective management system in China started at the end of the twentieth century, although its Copyright Law, which was first promulgated in 1990, did not mention copyright collective management. The legal basis of collective management finds its legislative origin in the Implementation Regulations of the Copyright Law approved by the State Council in 1991.1 When China’s Copyright Law was revised in 2001, the basic legal framework of copyright collective management was established. It was not until 2004 when the State Council promulgated the Regulations on Copyright Collective Administration (“RCCA”) that a more comprehensive regulation on copyright collective management was made.