Five karaoke operators in the provincial capital Taiyuan were fined more than 500,000 yuan ($82,650) in total for infringing on the copyright of some 100 MTV works, according to a recent verdict by the provincial court. The China Audio-Video Copyright Association filed a lawsuit with the city's intermediate court against those shops in October 2013 because they had not paid license fee for many songs they had collected, but the defendants appealed to the provincial court.

(Source: China Daily)