Is it infringement to use watermarked pictures?

Legal analysis: the use of watermarked pictures is regarded as infringement, and the author of the pictures owns the copyright, which is owned from the date of completion of the work, so no one may use other people's pictures without the author's consent.

Legal basis: If Article 53 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) commits one of the following infringements, it shall bear the civil liability stipulated in Article 52 of this Law according to the circumstances; If the infringement damages the public interest at the same time, the copyright authority shall order it to stop the infringement, give it a warning, confiscate the illegal income, confiscate and harmlessly destroy the infringing copy and the materials, tools and equipment mainly used to make the infringing copy. If the illegal business amount is more than 50,000 yuan, a fine of more than one time and less than five times the illegal business amount may be imposed; If there is no illegal business amount, the illegal business amount is difficult to calculate or less than 50 thousand yuan, a fine of less than 250 thousand yuan may be imposed; If the case constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law:

(1) Reproduction, distribution, performance, projection, broadcasting, compilation and dissemination to the public through information networks without the permission of the copyright owner, except as otherwise provided by this Law;

(2) Publishing books with exclusive publishing rights enjoyed by others;

(3) 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, unless otherwise provided for in this Law;

(4) Reproduction, distribution and dissemination of audio and video products made by the producers of audio and video recordings to the public through information networks without the permission of the producers, except as otherwise provided for in this Law;

(5) broadcasting, copying or disseminating radio and television to the public through information networks without permission, except as otherwise provided by this Law;

(6) Deliberately circumventing or destroying technical measures without the permission of the copyright owner or copyright-related obligee, intentionally manufacturing, importing or providing devices or components mainly used for circumventing or destroying technical measures to others, or intentionally providing technical services for circumventing or destroying technical measures to others, except as otherwise provided by laws and administrative regulations;

(7) Deliberately deleting or changing works, layout designs, performances, audio-visual products or rights management information on radio and television without the permission of the copyright owner or copyright-related obligee, and providing them to the public knowing or should know that works, layout designs, performances, audio-visual products or rights management information on radio and television have been deleted or changed without permission, except as otherwise provided by laws and administrative regulations;

(eight) the production and sale of works signed by others.