A method and apparatus for distributing work copyright income based on a block chain. The method comprises: receiving a target transaction initiated by a member node device in a block chain, wherein the target transaction corresponds to a copyright usage event of a target work (102); and calling an intelligent contract corresponding to copyright income distribution of the target work, executing copyright income distribution logic which corresponds to the copyright usage event and is declared in the intelligent contract, and distributing copyright income to a copyright beneficiary of the target work, wherein the intelligent contract is generated based on copyright state information which is related to the target work and released to the block chain (104).
展开▼