Provisions on the Administration of Internet News Information Services, licensing and reprint sourcing duties (Arts. 5-6, 11, 15)

Article 5 requires any organisation providing an internet news information service to the public, including a news-reprinting service or a news-dissemination platform service, to first obtain an internet news information service licence, and bans operating such a service without one or beyond its scope.

Article 6 conditions that licence on the applicant being a legal person lawfully established within China, having a PRC-citizen principal officer and editor-in-chief, and maintaining dedicated editorial, content-review, and technical-security staff and systems; an entity applying specifically to gather and publish news must itself be a news organisation or a unit under a news-and-propaganda department's supervision.

Article 11 requires a licensed provider to appoint an editor-in-chief who bears overall responsibility for its news content and to register that person with the cyberspace administration.

Article 15 conditions any reprinting of news information on sourcing it only from central news organisations or provincial-level and above news organisations within a state-designated list, on crediting the original source, author, original headline, and editor, on not distorting the original headline's meaning or the news content, on keeping the source traceable, and on separately complying with copyright law.

This is a licensing and content-control regime enforced by the Cyberspace Administration of China, distinct from and additional to the Copyright Law's own exceptions, and no equivalent duty runs to an aggregator that only links to, rather than reprints, another outlet's news.