ChinaProvisions on the Administration of Internet News Information Services, licensing and reprint sourcing duties (Arts. 5-6, 11, 15)
Provisions on the Administration of Internet News Information Services Cyberspace Administration of China Order No. 1 (2017), Arts. 5-6, 11, 15
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- a regulation made under an act
What it requires
- Obtain an internet news information service licence before providing an internet news information service to the public, including a news-reprinting service or a news-dissemination platform service; do not operate without one or beyond its scope.no control in the NIST AI RMF
- Meet the licence conditions: be a legal person lawfully established within China, with a PRC-citizen principal officer and editor-in-chief, and keep dedicated editorial, content-review and technical-security staff and systems.no control in the NIST AI RMF
- If you apply to gather and publish news, you must yourself be a news organisation or a unit under a news-and-propaganda department's supervision.no control in the NIST AI RMF
- Appoint an editor-in-chief who bears overall responsibility for your news content, and register that person with the cyberspace administration.no control in the NIST AI RMF
- When reprinting news information, source it only from central news organisations or provincial-level and above news organisations within a state-designated list, and credit the original source, author, original headline and editor.NIST AI RMFMAP 4.1
- When reprinting, do not distort the original headline's meaning or the news content, keep the source traceable, and separately comply with copyright law.NIST AI RMFMAP 4.1
- You carry no equivalent reprinting duty if you only link to, rather than reprint, another outlet's news.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework, and in the NIST AI RMF, line by line beside each duty above. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
What this law does
Article 5 requires any organisation providing an internet news information service to the public, including a news-reprinting service or a news-dissemination platform service, to first obtain an internet news information service licence, and bans operating such a service without one or beyond its scope.
Article 6 conditions that licence on the applicant being a legal person lawfully established within China, having a PRC-citizen principal officer and editor-in-chief, and maintaining dedicated editorial, content-review, and technical-security staff and systems; an entity applying specifically to gather and publish news must itself be a news organisation or a unit under a news-and-propaganda department's supervision.
Article 11 requires a licensed provider to appoint an editor-in-chief who bears overall responsibility for its news content and to register that person with the cyberspace administration.
Article 15 conditions any reprinting of news information on sourcing it only from central news organisations or provincial-level and above news organisations within a state-designated list, on crediting the original source, author, original headline, and editor, on not distorting the original headline's meaning or the news content, on keeping the source traceable, and on separately complying with copyright law.
This is a licensing and content-control regime enforced by the Cyberspace Administration of China, distinct from and additional to the Copyright Law's own exceptions, and no equivalent duty runs to an aggregator that only links to, rather than reprints, another outlet's news.
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