1. Whoever, without the permission of the copyright owner, copies and distributes written works, music, movies, television, video works, computer software and other works for profit, or publishes books with exclusive publishing rights for others, or copies and distributes audio and video products made by the producer of audio and video recordings, or produces and sells artistic works with fake signatures of others, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility under any of the following circumstances:

(1) The amount of illegal income is more than 30,000 yuan;

(two) the illegal business amount is more than fifty thousand yuan;

(3) Reproduction and distribution of written works, music, movies, television, video works, computer software and other works with a total of more than 500 copies without the permission of the copyright owner;

(4) Reproduction and distribution of audio and video products made by the producers of audio and video recordings without their permission, with a total number of more than 500 copies;

(five) other serious circumstances.

2. Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, commits one of the following acts of infringing on copyright or rights related to copyright, and the amount of illegal income is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and shall also or 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 10 years and shall also be fined:

(1) Reproduction and distribution of written works, music, fine arts, audio-visual works, computer software and other works prescribed by laws and administrative regulations to the public through information networks without the permission of the copyright owner;

(2) Publishing books with exclusive publishing rights enjoyed by others;

(3) Reproduction, distribution and dissemination of audio and video products made by the producer to the public through the information network without the permission of the producer;

(4) Reproduction and distribution of audio and video products of their performances without the permission of performers, or dissemination of their performances to the public through information networks;

(5) Making or selling works of art with forged signatures;

(6) Deliberately avoiding or destroying the technical measures taken by the right holder to protect copyright or copyright-related rights in his works, audio-visual products, etc. without the permission of the copyright owner or copyright-related right holder.

Legal basis: Article 9 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Copyright owners include:

(1) author;

(2) Other natural persons, legal persons or unincorporated organizations that enjoy copyright according to this Law.

Article 10 Copyright includes the following personal rights and property rights:

(a) the right to publish, that is, the right to decide whether the work is open;

(2) the right of signature, that is, the right to indicate the identity of the author and sign his name on the work;

(3) the right to modify, that is, the right to modify or authorize others to modify a work;

(four) the right to protect the integrity of the work, that is, the right to protect the work from distortion and tampering;

(5) the right of reproduction, that is, the right to make one or more copies of a work by means of printing, photocopying, rubbing, audio recording, video recording, copying, remaking and digitization;

(6) the right of distribution, that is, the right to provide the original or duplicate of a work to the public by way of sale or gift;

(seven) the right to rent, that is, the right to temporarily license others to use the original or copy of audio-visual works and computer software, except that computer software is not the main object of rent;

(8) The right to exhibit, that is, the right to publicly display the original or duplicate of an artistic work or photographic work;

(nine) the right to perform, that is, the right to publicly perform a work and publicly broadcast the performance of the work in various ways;

(10) the right to show, that is, the right to publicly copy art, photography, audio-visual works, etc. Through projectors, slide projectors and other technical equipment;

(11) The right to broadcast, that is, the right to publicly broadcast or replay a work by wired or wireless means, and the right to broadcast a work to the public through loudspeakers or other similar tools for transmitting symbols, sounds and images, but not including the right specified in Item 12 of this paragraph;

(12) the right of information network communication, that is, the right to provide it to the public by wired or wireless means, so that the public can obtain the works at the time and place of their choice;

(thirteen) the right to shoot, that is, the right to fix the work on the carrier by shooting audio-visual works;

(14) the right of adaptation, that is, the right to change a work and create a new work with originality;

(15) the right to translation, that is, the right to convert a work from one language into another;

(16) the right of assembly, that is, the right to assemble a work or fragments of a work into a new work through selection or arrangement;

(seventeen) other rights that should be enjoyed by the copyright owner.

The copyright owner may license others to exercise the rights specified in Items (5) to (17) of the preceding paragraph and get remuneration in accordance with the agreement or the relevant provisions of this Law.

The copyright owner may, in accordance with the agreement or the relevant provisions of this law, transfer all or part of the rights specified in Items (5) to (17) of the first paragraph of this article and get remuneration.