China License Qualification Certificate

Performing Arts Agency License

 

Performing Arts Agency License

 

The business performance permit refers to a performance permit certificate that allows the organizer who has the qualification to apply for a business performance event to pass the examination by the Ministry of Culture or the local cultural bureau.

Applicants are qualified to perform cultural performances, performance venues, and individual actors to obtain various commercial performances. The commercial performance refers to the live performances held for the public for the purpose of making profits. Whether it is a performance from abroad, or a performance from China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, it is a commercial performance.

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I.License scope

The permit is applicable to the establishment and approval of domestic performance agencies. In the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region, investors who invest in the establishment of joint ventures, cooperation or sole proprietorships in China need to be approved by brokerage institutions. Investors from Taiwan have invested in setting up joint venture or cooperative operation performance agencies in China to approve the application of the performance brokerage institution and the handling of changes, continuation, cancellation, and reissue.

The commercial performance license contains several contents. The performances include music, drama, dance, acrobatics, magic, circus, folk art, puppetry, recitation, folk art, models, costumes and other live performances.

There are several ways to perform commercial performances.

  • Ticketing or private.
  • Pay for performances or personal rewards
  • Advertising or product promotion with performances.
  • Sponsored or donated.
  • Organize performances in other ways.

Any unit that conducts public performances, fundraising performances, and festival performances shall entrust the performance company to undertake the performance and conduct the examination and approval procedures in accordance with the regulations. For the performance of the performance group, the original copy of the “Performance Certificate” and the original copy of the “Business and Industry License” (excluding the state-run performance group), the performance program materials, and the performance contract text (should contain the relevant “Regulations” and the Ministry of Culture Matters stipulated in Article 19 of the Regulations on the Administration of Business Performance Regulations No. 25). If it is the acting agency’s acting performance approval, you also need to provide a copy of the company’s “Performance Certificate.”

II.What is a “commercial performance”?

  • A “Commercial Performance License” refers to a performance license certificate that allows an organizer who is qualified to apply for commercial performance activities to perform formally, obtained after passing the review of the Ministry of Culture or local cultural bureaus. Among them, application qualifications refer to art performance groups, performance venues, performance organizations and individual actors that have obtained art performance licenses, and they can engage in various commercial performance activities. Commercial performances refer to live cultural performances held for the public for the purpose of profit. Whether they are performances from abroad or performances in China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, they are all commercial performances. Whether you perform offline or online, it is a commercial performance.
  • Inter Area in addition to assisting clients in obtaining performing arts agency licenses (including China, Shanghai, Shenzhen, etc.), we can also handle other licenses to provide one-stop services for our clients’ needs.

III. Application conditions for commercial performance license

  1. In China, you need to have a company established in accordance with the law and hold a business license.
  2. The business scope must include performance agency.
  3. Foreign investment from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan does not include additional conditions.
  4. Physical office address (no need to verify, it is best not to provide a registered address in a centralized area).
  5. There are 3 or more full-time performance agents (with performance agent qualification certificate).

IV.How to apply for a commercial performance license?

  • 1.Performer:
    Art performance groups should have full-time actors and equipment appropriate to their business, and should apply to the cultural department of the county-level people’s government; individual actors who engage in commercial performances should register with the industrial and commercial administrative department and obtain a business license in accordance with the law.
  • 2.Performance venue:
    Business units shall register with the industrial and commercial administrative departments in accordance with the law, obtain business licenses, and go through approval procedures in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and administrative regulations on fire protection, health management, etc.
  • 3.Broker:
    Performance brokerage agencies shall have three or more full-time performance brokers and funds commensurate with their business, and shall apply to the cultural authorities of the provincial, autonomous regional, or municipal people’s governments; individual performance brokers who engage in intermediary and agency activities for commercial performances shall register with the industrial and commercial administrative departments and obtain business licenses in accordance with the law.

V.What are the penalties for conducting business without applying for a commercial performance license?

  • If a commercial performance is held without approval, the cultural department of the people’s government at the county level shall order the performance to be stopped, confiscate the illegal gains, and impose a fine of not less than 8 times but not more than 10 times the illegal gains; if there are no illegal gains or the illegal gains are less than 10,000 yuan, a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan shall be imposed; if the circumstances are serious, the original issuing authority shall revoke the commercial performance license.

VI.What kind of units need to apply for a commercial performance license?

  • Brokerage company.
  • Live streaming platform.
  • Performance organization.
  • Performance group.
  • Individual actors (who want to organize their own performances and earn money).

According to regulations, brokerage companies, performance organizations, etc. that want to organize performance activities must first have a “Commercial Performance License” before they can sign a contract with an artist!

  • Inter Area can also assist customers in applying for a Commercial Performance License to provide a one-stop service that meets customer needs.

VII.Commercial performance application specifications

  • Economy Type:
    Fill in according to the “Regulations on the Classification of Enterprise Registration Types” of the National Bureau of Statistics and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, such as “state-owned enterprises”, “collective enterprises”, “limited liability companies”, “joint-stock companies”, “partnerships”, “sole proprietorships”, “joint ventures (Taiwanese capital)”, “wholly Hong Kong-owned enterprises”, “Sino-foreign joint ventures” and “individual businesses”, etc.
  • Business scope:
    Art performance groups and individual performers are classified according to the types of art they perform, such as “music performance”, “opera performance”, “singing and dancing performance”, “acrobatic performance”, “comprehensive art performance”, etc.; performance brokerage agencies are “operating performance and brokerage business”; mainland branches of Hong Kong and Macao performance brokerage agencies and individual performance brokers are “performance intermediary and agency business”.
  • Practitioners:
    A performing arts group refers to actors, including performers; a performance agency refers to persons who have the qualifications of a performance agent, and practitioners without the qualifications of an agent do not need to register.
  • Approved number of people:
    The art performance group refers to actors, including performers; the performance agency refers to persons who are qualified as performance agents, and practitioners without agent qualifications are not counted; the performance venue refers to the actual number of seats that can be sold to the public or the number of spectators that can be accommodated after approval.
  • Validity date of certificate:
    The date is calculated 2 years from the date of issuance of the certificate.

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