Yes, it's very expensive. Music copyright is very expensive. In the era of scarce copyright, content copyright will only become more and more expensive.

the rights enjoyed by the creators of musical works in accordance with the law. It mainly includes: property rights such as performance rights, reproduction rights, broadcasting rights and network transmission rights of music works, and spiritual rights such as signature rights and protection of the integrity of works. The term of protection of music copyright stipulated in the Copyright Law refers to the term of protection for the composer, adaptation, translation and other creators of music works to enjoy exclusive rights to their music works. The term of protection ends on December 31st, 5th year after the author's death. The cooperative work ends on December 31st, 5th year after the death of the last deceased author. Music works that have passed the protection period can be used free of charge, but the author's personal rights such as the right of authorship, the right to protect the integrity of the works and the right to modify them are always protected.

with the gradual standardization of the music market, the "scarcity" of copyright resources is increasing. In the beginning of 217, Netease Cloud Music won the exclusive copyright of Avex, which is dominated by ACG music, and Tencent Music Entertainment Group won the rights of lyrics and songs of Universal Music Publishing Company. Recently, Baidu Music bought the recording rights of Rolling Stone Music. With the intensification of competition, the competition for copyright in the music industry will not be settled, but the expiration of some exclusive copyrights will trigger more competition.

But neither Taihe of Baidu, China Music Group of Tencent nor Ali Music of Ali have absolute advantages in copyright, so Netease Cloud Music with money has a chance. Moreover, Netease has another advantage: as the largest platform for independent musicians in China, Netease Cloud Music has gathered more than 4, independent musicians, such as Zhao Lei, Chen Li, Li Zhi and Good Sister Band, which were popular a while ago.

So sometimes money doesn't necessarily buy copyright. Music copyright has many things to consider, but copyright is definitely not cheap.