Huo Moumou, a temporary worker in a unit in Shanxi, built a pirated website and infringed on the copyrights of more than 500 people, including Tang Jiasanshao, Fenghuo Opera Princes, Tiancan Tudou, etc., involving more than 4,000 works, and the scripts of popular film and television dramas including "Flowers" also appeared On his website, he also posted the payment code on the website or sent it to the "book club". Huo Moumou is an "old bookworm" and likes to read novels on pirated websites. Later, a pirated website he often visited was shut down, so he decided to build one himself. With a university degree, he used his years of experience on pirated websites to collect a large number of tutorials and network plug-in tools for building websites, from renting overseas servers to From building websites based on templates to purchasing "crawler" programs to download works from major websites. He also went to various websites to take screenshots and copy novels one by one, and went to many forum posts to collect documents shared by others. His website has only been online for one year and has been downloaded more than 100,000 times. Currently, Huo Moumou has been subject to criminal compulsory measures. Perhaps many people think that copyright infringement can only be brought to court, but they didn’t expect that the police can also intervene? Under the premise that Qishu is for profit and meets certain circumstances, copyright infringement will also constitute a crime.
What specifically does "other serious circumstances" stipulated in Article 217 of the Criminal Law include?
(1) The illegal business amount is more than 50,000 yuan;
(2) The total number of dissemination of other people's works is more than 500 pieces (parts);
(3) The actual number of clicks on the dissemination of other people's works reaches 50,000 times Above;
(4) disseminating other people’s works in a membership system with more than 1,000 registered members;
(5) Although the amount or quantity does not meet the standards specified in items (1) to (4), respectively, Meet more than half of the standards for two or more of them.
(6) Other serious circumstances.
In addition, those who commit the acts specified in the preceding paragraph and the amount or quantity reaches more than five times the standards specified in items (1) to (5) of the previous paragraph shall fall into the category of "other particularly serious circumstances" stipulated in Article 217 of the Criminal Law. ".
planning Chen Dichen
copywriter Zhang Bingjing Ren Guoyong
photography Lu Jing
editing Huang Xian
design Li Zijia
proofreading Faye Wong
