What is the crime of copying other people's works?

If the perpetrator plagiarizes other people's articles, it may constitute a crime of copyright infringement. This crime refers to the act of copying and distributing works such as words, audio-visual and computer software without the permission of the copyright owner for profit, publishing books with exclusive publishing rights of others, copying and distributing audio-visual products made by them without the permission of the producer, and producing and displaying works of art with fake signatures of others, resulting in a large amount of illegal income or other serious circumstances. The legal consequences of copyright infringement are mainly civil liabilities such as stopping the infringement, apologizing and compensating for losses. If the circumstances are serious, criminal responsibility will be investigated, and copying other people's articles constitutes copyright infringement. At the same time, if the public interest is harmed, the copyright administrative department may order it to stop the infringement, confiscate the illegal income, confiscate and destroy the infringing copy, and may also impose a fine; If the circumstances are serious, the copyright administrative department may also confiscate the materials, tools and equipment mainly used for making infringing copies; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.

What behaviors are not plagiarism?

1, copy the ideas, viewpoints and opinions of using copyrighted works. Generally speaking, the law allows authors to freely use themes, themes, ideas, thoughts, etc. It is not plagiarism to create something new in another work.

2. Copying and using the historical background, objective facts and statistical data of other people's works. Copyright laws in various countries do not protect the historical background, objective facts and statistical data expressed by the works themselves, and anyone can use them freely. However, completely copying others' words describing objective facts and historical background may be considered plagiarism.

3. Plagiarism and fair use. Fair use is the legal basis for authors to use other people's works, and its scope is generally stipulated by copyright laws of various countries. Anything beyond the scope of fair use generally constitutes infringement, but it is not necessarily plagiarism.

4. plagiarism and coincidence. Copyright protects original works, not original works. Similar works, if created by the author completely independently, cannot be regarded as plagiarism.

Legal basis: Article 217 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) infringes copyright or copyright-related rights for the purpose of making profits, and the amount of illegal income is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and shall also or only 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 without the permission of the copyright owner; (2) Publishing books with exclusive publishing rights enjoyed by others;