Compliance

AI short dramas for China: a checklist for labels, masters and platform delivery

Synthetic-content labeling rules and the premium micro-drama program are reshaping both production delivery and platform operations.

Corroborated

Disclosure belongs in the master

China's Measures for Labeling AI-Generated and Synthetic Content distinguish visible and embedded labels and set expectations for video, file metadata, platform verification and user declarations. For AI short drama, disclosure cannot be improvised at upload time; it needs to begin in export templates, file metadata and version records.

Quality policy extends into project operations

The broadcasting regulator's premium creation and distribution plan covers more than themes: it asks national, regional and platform actors to build pipelines for project reserves, incubation, tracking, review, promotion and reporting. A studio therefore delivers not only to viewers, but also into platform review, project ledgers and later evaluation.

Run the compliance checklist before every export

A minimum pre-export check should cover applicable opening and player disclosures, file metadata, generation tools and versions, asset and voice permissions, filing or project records, subtitle and dub versions, platform declaration fields and a traceable final-master hash. Applicable requirements vary, so every release still needs project- and region-specific review.

Compliance is not a single pre-launch review; it is a version chain from source asset to final distribution.