Because copyrights are now paid, NetEase did not sign a copyright agreement with the relevant singers.

Now QQ Music is undoubtedly the largest player in record company copyright distribution, owning the exclusive copyrights of the three major record giants: Warner, Universal, and Sony.

Introduction

NetEase Cloud and QQ Music have always had disputes over copyright issues. In November last year, Tencent sued NetEase Cloud over "Jay Chou's music copyright" and the verdict was announced. NetEase Cloud compensated Tencent Music for 850,000 yuan. This incident can be said to have caused NetEase Cloud to completely retreat in the copyright war for music apps and become a passive party.

Although NetEase Cloud has now received US$700 million in financing from Alibaba and is willing to spend money on music copyrights, it is still difficult to compete with Tencent, either focusing on some relatively niche and relatively marginal music copyrights. Or spend your money wisely. QQ Kugou and others will also negotiate exclusive cooperation with upstream companies. NetEase and them are both Internet channels, and competition with each other for copyright is inevitable.