1. What to do if your work is plagiarized
1. Methods of plagiarism: First, the victim can request the infringer to stop the infringement. Then, the victim can collect evidence of infringement, evidence of loss, and relevant evidence of his/her copyright in the work, and file a lawsuit with the People's Court in accordance with the law.
2. Legal basis:
"Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" 210 Article 7
Whoever commits one of the following copyright infringement situations for the purpose of profit, and the amount of illegal gains is relatively large, or there are other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years Or criminal detention, and shall be concurrently or solely fined; 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 but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined:
(1) Reproduction, distribution, and dissemination to the public through information networks of its written works, music, art, audio-visual works, computer software, and other works stipulated in laws and administrative regulations without the permission of the copyright owner;
(2) Publishing books for which others have exclusive publishing rights;(3) Without audio or video recording Copying, distributing, and disseminating to the public through information networks the audio and video recordings produced without the permission of the producer; Audio and video recordings of their performances, or disseminating their performances to the public through information networks;
(5) Producing and selling art works that counterfeit the signatures of others;
(6) Without the permission of the copyright owner or copyright-related rights holder, deliberately avoid or destroy the copyright protection measures adopted by the rights holder for his works, audio and video products, etc. or technical measures of copyright-related rights.
2. How to identify plagiarism of other people’s works
Behavior that meets the following conditions is considered to be plagiarism of other people's works: there is indeed an illegal act of stealing other people's works; the act of stealing other people's works has caused objective damage to the copyright owner. ; There is a causal relationship between the fact of damage and the act of taking the work; the perpetrator of the theft is subjectively at fault, and this fault includes both negligence and intentionality. As for the form of plagiarism, it may be copying the original work in its entirety, or it may be stealing someone else's copyright-protected original work as your own after reshaping it.
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