I. Place of Acceptance

1. 6F, Sida Plaza, 19 Meilin Road, Futian District, Shenzhen
   Contact Person: Miss Xu
   Consulting Hotline: 86185560     QQ: 625792137
2. Room 603, 6F, Building 6, Shenzhen Bay Scientific Ecology Park, Shahe West Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen
   Contact Person: Miss He
   Consulting Hotline: 86660433     QQ: 1425701411

II. Acceptance Time

9:00-12:00 and 2:00-5:30, Monday to Friday.

III. Handling Flow (Operating Flow for Applicants in 2018 New System.doc. Please click to download)

IV. Documents Required for Copyright Registration of Works:

The applicant logs on the Guangdong Copyright Network (http://www.gd-copyright.cn/gdcrsp/) and enters the page where the user registers copyrights

The applicant applies for or logs on the “Voluntary Works Copyright Registration” account, completes the online application in the business acceptance column and submits relevant documents. The Society staff responsible for works registration performs preliminary review, the applicant can complete one copy of the works after paying the fee (it is not required to submit the paper copy for a single sheet of works) and submit it to Shenzhen Copyright Society, which will hand over the works to Guangdong Copyright Office for review.

V. Time Frame of Processing:

2 months after the registration agency formally accepts paper application documents

VI. Types of Works

Copyright objects are divided into a total of seven types, according to the Copyright Law of China:

1.Literary works
They refer to works created in character, number or symbol and include novel, prose, poem, essay, monograph, translation and textbook. In general, playwright outline, creation of animation script, corporate standard, planning document and any other unique characters can apply for copyright registration

2.Oral works
​They refer to improvised works created in the oral language such as report, speech, literature and court debate published in the oral form.

3.Music, drama, performing art dancing and acrobatic works
Musical works mean those works that are created with notes, numbers or other marks, express contents with rhythm, allow signing or performance and have script or no script (independent scripts are considered as literary works) and include songs, dancing music and symphonies.

Drama and performing art works mean those works that compile continuous motions, monologues, dialogues and words of one or multiple persons for performance.

Dancing works mean those works that compile a group of continuous motions and gestures rich in aesthetics for dancing. These works usually combine motions, rhythms and expressions and can be fixed in the form of dance notation or video.

4.Art works
Art works mean those works with aesthetic images that are created with lines, colors or other elements. These works may be planar such as drawing and calligraphy, or also may be cubic molding art such as sculpture. Usually, logo, trademark pattern, textile pattern design, cartoon design and exterior product design can apply for copyright registration.

5.Photographic works
Photographic works mean those artistic works that use devices to record objective images on photographic materials. They usually refer to works taken with cameras.

6.Film works and works created in film-like methods
They refer to those works that are recorded on film, magnetic tape or other audio/video carriers, composed of a series of continuous pictures and accompanying sound (or without accompany sound) and played or broadcast with appropriate devices. They usually refer to film, television, video and other works.

7.Engineering design drawing, product design drawing, map, sketch map and other graphic works and model works
Engineering design drawings and product design drawings usually refer to drawings that are used to instruct project construction or product manufacturing and express the structure or decomposition of a project or product. In particular, exclusive product design drawings for mechanical part, furniture and life necessities can apply for copyright registration.

Works Registration Tariff

Appendix: Duplicate: RMB50
Storage: RMB40

Application for urgent processing (additional charge on top of normal tariff)

Urgent (10 working days): RMB200

Please remit the registration fee to the following account number of the Finance Department of the Society:

Account Name: Shenzhen Copyright Society
Account Bank: ICBC Meilin Sub-branch
Account Number: 40000 2620 9200 2989 20

For transfer, please specify works description as well as invoice title and tax number in the remarks

The final price is subject to the price displayed in the system.