Legal basis: Trial Measures for Voluntary Registration of Works
Article 1 These Measures are formulated in order to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of authors or other copyright owners and users of works, help solve copyright disputes caused by copyright ownership, and provide preliminary evidence for solving copyright disputes.
Article 2 The registration of works shall be voluntary. Whether a work is registered or not does not affect the copyright obtained by the author or other copyright owners according to law.