Protect intellectual property! "Wandering Earth" and other film and television infringement cases announced


1905 Film Network News On April 24, the Nanjing Municipal Procuratorate held a special press conference on intellectual property protection to announce the prosecution and protection of intellectual property rights of the city’s procuratorial organs since 2019, as well as 5 typical cases involving infringement of intellectual property rights, including those involving the "Wandering Major infringement cases involving more than 600 film and television works including "Earth".


In July 2017, the defendants, Yan XX, Yin XX, and Yang, conspired to build a movie resource website. Without the permission of the copyright owner, publish a large number of unauthorized pirated domestic and foreign film and television resources on the website for others to download, and make profit by charging membership fees. In February 2019, the defendant Yin Moumou released 7 Chinese New Year film resources including "The Wandering Earth" on the website involved. After electronic inspection, more than 600 infringing film and television works were involved.


On November 22, 2019, the court sentenced the defendants Yan Moumou and Yin Moumou to two years of imprisonment and two years of probation for copyright infringement, and a fine of RMB 100,000; the defendant Yang was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment. One year, suspended sentence for one year, and fined RMB 50,000.


In 2019, Nanjing prosecutors approved the arrest of 155 persons in 86 criminal cases involving intellectual property infringement, and prosecution of 252 persons in 98 cases. Among them, the crime of counterfeiting registered trademarks, the crime of selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks, the crime of illegally manufacturing and selling illegally manufactured registered trademark signs, the crime of copyright infringement, the crime of infringing on trade secrets, and many other crimes. After the court trial, 150 people were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.


Protecting intellectual property rights is not only the duty of judicial organs, but it is also the duty of every citizen to improve legal awareness and consciously safeguard property rights z31.