It is either illegal profit-making or infringement of intellectual property rights. Intellectual property rights are protected, and infringement of intellectual property rights is illegal, and serious is criminal. Infringements of intellectual property rights include:
1. Unauthorized use of identical or similar trademarks, special signs, patents, works and other creative achievements in production, operation, advertising, publicity and performance;
2. Forging or manufacturing identical or similar trademarks or special signs without authorization, or selling forged or unauthorized trademarks or special signs;
3, disguised use of the same or similar trademarks, special signs, patents, works and other creative achievements.
Article 217th of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * The crime of copyright infringement aims at making profits. Under any of the following circumstances, if 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; 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;
(six) without the permission of the copyright owner or copyright-related obligee, deliberately avoiding or destroying the technical measures taken by the obligee to protect copyright or copyright-related rights in his works, audio-visual products, etc.