Mr James Choi

James Choi is the Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Recording Industry Alliance Limited (HKRIA), a copyright licensing body registered with the Hong Kong Intellectual Property department, and a representative body for Hong Kong’s recorded music industry, whose members include the major international and local record companies. An intellectual property lawyer by trade, he was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2013 and was an IP partner, where he was individually ranked for Enforcement and Litigation in the World Trademark Review 1000 and named a Rising Star by asialaw and by Licensing International. James’ practice sits at the intersection of entertainment and copyright law. He advised HKRIA and its subsidiary, the Hong Kong Karaoke Licensing Alliance, in the decade-long Copyright Tribunal reference brought by Neway Music Limited — proceedings that produced the Tribunal’s first substantive decisions. Beyond litigation, he has advised concert and live-event organisers, the W