law - CCTV: China's largest pirate - SCMP

Hunters for infringements of copyrights and brand namese often find themselves in small villages in Guangdong or Zhejiang Province. The South China Morning Post has discovered they do not have to travel that far: the largest illegal user of music is CCTV, China Central TV-station in Beijing.
CCTV has never paid any fees to the music industry, costing the industry hundreds of millions of Renminbi every year. Other TV stations like Shanghai TV probably also did not pay, although representatives of the music industry have been trying to collect money there. Nobody dared to touch CCTV, but those days seem over.