What is illegal about stealing photos?

It is illegal to steal other people's pictures and violate copyright laws. In serious cases, it may violate criminal laws. Use of other people's images should require the permission of the image owner or indicate the source. Personal rights in intellectual property rights are exclusive rights that are inseparable from the person of the person who creates the results of intellectual activity, such as: right of signature, right of publication, right of modification, etc.; property rights in intellectual property rights refer to the rights of the person who enjoys intellectual property rights based on this intellectual activity. The right to receive remuneration or other material benefits for the results achieved.

The rights infringed by misappropriating pictures are as follows:

1. Right of authorship: If you use other people’s works, you should indicate the name of the author and the title of the work; however, if the parties agree otherwise or due to the way the work is used, Exceptions where specificity cannot be specified. However, the report also pointed out that the protection of authorship rights cannot be generalized. The actual use method and purpose of the work should be considered, and industry habits or business practices should be respected.

2. Right of modification: refers to the right that the author enjoys in accordance with the law to modify his or her works or authorize others to modify his or her works. Generally speaking, unauthorized modification of a work by others is an infringement of the author's right to modification.

3. Protection of the integrity of the work: Protection of the integrity of the work focuses on protecting the identity of the author’s ideas and the ideas expressed in the work. Others are not allowed to alter the work through distortion, tampering, etc., causing readers to Misunderstanding of the work and the author’s ideas. Distortion refers to deliberately changing the true appearance of things or making incorrect reflections of things, which has a derogatory connotation; tampering refers to using false means to alter or misinterpret classics, theories, policies, etc. Infringement of the right to protect the integrity of a work requires the perpetrator to misinterpret the work based on subjective intention, so that the meaning expressed in the work is significantly different from what the author intended to express.

Legal basis:

"Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China"

Article 48 If there are any of the following infringements, the following infringements shall be made according to the circumstances. Bear civil responsibilities such as stopping the infringement, eliminating the impact, making an apology, and compensating for losses; if the interests of the public are harmed at the same time, the copyright administrative department may order the infringement to cease, confiscate the illegal gains, confiscate and destroy the infringing copies, and may impose fines Fines; if the circumstances are serious, the copyright administrative department may also confiscate materials, tools, equipment, etc. mainly used to make infringing copies; if a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law:

(1) Without copyright With the permission of the other party, reproduce, distribute, perform, screen, broadcast, compile, and disseminate the work to the public through information networks, except as otherwise provided in this law;

(2) Publishing others enjoy the exclusive right of publication of books.

"Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China"

Article 217: The crime of copyright infringement is for the purpose of profit, and there is one of the following copyright infringement circumstances, the amount of illegal income If the amount of illegal income is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years or criminal detention, and concurrently or solely with a fine; 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 and not more than seven years, and also fined. :

(1) Reproduction and distribution of written works, music, movies, television, video works, computer software and other works without the permission of the copyright owner;

(2) Publishing Books for which others have exclusive publishing rights;

(3) Copying and distributing audio and video recordings without the permission of the audio and video producers;

(4) Producing and selling Counterfeiting works of art signed by others.