Legal analysis
If the perpetrator sells pirated courses, knowing that the courses he sells are works that infringe the copyright of others, and the amount of illegal income is huge, it constitutes the crime of selling infringing copies and needs to bear criminal responsibility. Sentencing standards are: fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, with or without a fine. According to Chinese laws, whoever commits the crime of selling infringing copies shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined. If a unit commits the crime of selling infringing copies, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions on individual crime. For the purpose of making profits, anyone who commits any of the following cases of copyright infringement, with a relatively large amount of illegal income or other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the amount of illegal income is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.
legal ground
Article 52 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) commits one of the following infringements, and shall bear civil liabilities such as stopping the infringement, eliminating the influence, making an apology and compensating for the losses according to the circumstances: (1) publishing his works without the permission of the copyright owner; (2) publishing a work created in cooperation with others as a work created by oneself without the permission of a co-author; (three) did not participate in the creation, in order to seek personal fame and fortune, signed other people's works; (4) distorting or tampering with other people's works; (5) Plagiarizing other people's works; (6) Using a work by means of exhibition, filming of audio-visual products, etc., or using a work by means of adaptation, translation, annotation, etc. without the permission of the copyright owner, except as otherwise provided by this Law; (seven) the use of another person's work, which should be paid but not paid; (8) Renting the originals or duplicates of audio-visual works, computer software and audio-visual products without the permission of the copyright owner, performer or producer of audio-visual products, except as otherwise provided by this Law; (9) Using the layout design of books and periodicals published by publishers without their permission; (10) Live broadcast or public dissemination of a live performance or recording of a performance without the permission of the performer; (eleven) other acts of infringement of copyright and copyright-related rights. Article 218 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * knowingly sells infringing copies specified in Article 217 of this Law for profit, and the amount of illegal gains is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years and shall also, or shall only, be fined.