In Lawrence Lessig’s Ted talk “Laws that choke creativity”, he mentions that using of computer technology is a kind of read-write culture. That is, “It’s a culture where people participate in the creation and the re-creation of their culture” (Lessig). And then, he gives some examples such as the Internet and remixing music. That made me think about the music industries in the US and China are so different. The US music industry has a specific and systematical law of music copyright, but in China, the music copyright is vague. Couple years ago, people could download any music for free from the Internet. Recently, the big internet groups are willing to pay license music for their platforms because Chinese consumers are increasingly listening to music via a small number of streaming services controlled by the big internet groups such as Tencent, Alibaba and China Mobile. Compared with the United Sates, the next challenge for Chinese music industry is how to convince consumers to pay for the music.