Criminal liability for completed crime of copyright infringement

A completed offender who commits the crime of copyright infringement shall, in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law, be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and concurrently or solely a fine; 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 impose a fine. Regarding the issue of criminal liability for completed copyright infringement, the editor of Legal Savior Network will answer it in detail for you below.

1. Criminal liability for completed copyright infringement

1. Criminal infringement A completed offender of a copyright crime shall, in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law, be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely 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 and not more than seven years, and shall also be fined gold.

2. Legal basis: Article 217 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China", the crime of copyright infringement is for the purpose of profit, and the following copyright infringement circumstances occur: 1. If the amount of illegal gains is large or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and concurrently or solely with a fine; if the amount of illegal gains is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than seven years. Imprisonment and fines:

(1) Reproduction and distribution of written works, music, movies, television, video works, computer software and Other works;

(2) Publishing books for which others have exclusive publishing rights;

(3) Copying and distributing audio and video recordings without the permission of the audio and video producers;

(4) Producing and selling art that counterfeits the signature of others of works.

2. What are the targets of copyright infringement

1. Works of others: including written works; oral works; music, drama, folk art, and dance works; art and photography works; film, television, and video works ; Engineering design, product design drawings and their descriptions; graphic works such as maps and schematics; computer software; other works specified by laws and administrative regulations.

2. Books, audio recordings, video products and works of art that forge the signature of others

According to the relevant provisions of my country’s Criminal Law It stipulates that whoever infringes on the copyright of others and the amount of illegal income exceeds 30,000 yuan, or the amount of illegal business operations exceeds 50,000 yuan, or if the amount of infringement is more than 1,000 copies of the work, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention. Or a fine alone. If the amount of illegal income is more than 150,000 yuan, or the amount of illegal business operations is more than 250,000 yuan, or the amount of infringement copied and distributed works is more than 5,000 copies, 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.

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