Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law.
Article 217 Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, commits one of the following acts that infringe 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) Copying and distributing his written works, music, art, audio-visual works, computer software and other works prescribed by laws and administrative regulations to the public through the information network 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; (five) the production and sale of counterfeit works of art; (6) Technical measures taken to intentionally avoid or destroy the copyright to protect the copyright or copyright-related rights of his works, audio-visual products, etc. Without the permission of the copyright owner or the copyright-related obligee.
Article 218 Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, knowingly sells infringing copies specified in Article 217 of this Law, and the amount of illegal gains is huge or there are other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years and shall also, or shall only, be fined.