Legal Basis
Stealing other people's works as your own. Including completely copying other people's works and changing their form or content to some extent. Generally speaking, the author is free to use the theme, subject matter, ideas and thoughts reflected in another work to create a new creation, which is legally allowed and cannot be considered plagiarism. The copyright laws of various countries do not protect the historical background and objective facts and statistics expressed in the works themselves, and anyone can freely use them. However, completely copying others' words describing objective facts and historical background may be considered plagiarism. (Excerpted from the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China)
Plagiarism refers to stealing other people's works or fragments of works for publication.
From the form of plagiarism, there are acts of copying others' works intact or basically intact, and also acts of stealing others' original components protected by copyright as their own after being completely transformed ... Advanced plagiarism often encountered in copyright enforcement includes: changing the types of works and treating others' works as their own independent works, such as changing novels into movies; Do not change the type of work, but use the elements protected by copyright in the work and change the specific expression of the work, and regard the work created by others as your own independent work. (Excerpted from "Reply No.6 [1999] of the Copyright Administration Department of the National Copyright Administration on how to identify plagiarism to the Copyright Administration of a certain city")