Stealing other people's works commits the crime of copyright infringement. The object of the crime of copyright infringement is other people's works, books, audio-visual products and art works with forged signatures. The so-called works refer to the intellectual achievements in literature, art and science that people use to express their thoughts and feelings. Subjectively, the crime of copyright infringement is intentional and has the purpose of making profits. If the actor copies and distributes other people's works out of negligence, such as mistakenly thinking that the protection period has expired, or intentionally, but for non-profit purposes such as pursuing reputation, it cannot constitute a crime of copyright infringement. The object infringed by this crime includes not only the state's management order of the cultural market, but also the copyright enjoyed by the copyright owner according to law, as well as the rights enjoyed by the neighboring rights of works according to law.

Criminal law of the people's Republic of China

Article 2 17

The crime of copyright infringement aims at making profits, and in any of the following circumstances, if the amount of illegal income is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, it 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, distribution and dissemination 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;

(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.