How to compensate for personal non-commercial piracy infringement

Legal analysis: personal non-commercial piracy is not considered infringement if it is only for entertainment with friends, does not make any commercial use and does not obtain money.

Under the following circumstances, a work may be used without permission or payment to the copyright owner, but the name of the author and the name of the work shall be indicated, and other rights enjoyed by the copyright owner in accordance with this Law shall not be infringed:

(a) for personal study, research or appreciation of the use of other people's published works;

(2) appropriately quoting published works of others in works for the purpose of introducing and commenting on works or explaining problems;

(3) inevitably copying and quoting published works in newspapers, periodicals, radio stations, television stations and other media in order to report current news;

(4) Newspapers, periodicals, radio stations, television stations and other media publish or broadcast current affairs articles on political, economic and religious issues that have been published by other newspapers, periodicals, radio stations, television stations and other media, unless the author declares that they are not allowed to publish or broadcast;

(5) Newspapers, periodicals, radio stations, television stations and other media publish or broadcast speeches delivered at public meetings, unless the author declares that they are not allowed to publish or broadcast;

(6) Translating or reproducing a few published works for classroom teaching or scientific research in schools for use by teaching or scientific researchers, but not publishing them;

(seven) the use of published works by state organs within the reasonable scope of performing official duties;

(eight) libraries, archives, memorial halls, museums, art galleries, etc., in order to display or save the version, copy the works collected by the library;

(9) Performing published works for free, without charging fees to the public or paying remuneration to the performers;

(ten) copying, painting, photography and video recording of works of art set up or displayed in outdoor public places;

(eleven) China citizens, legal persons or other organizations written in Chinese and published in China;

(12) Published works are published in Braille. The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall apply to restrictions on the rights of publishers, performers, producers of audio and video recordings, radio stations and television stations.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law.

Article 217 Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, commits any of the following acts that infringe on copyright or rights related to copyright, and the amount of illegal income is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and shall also, or shall 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;

(6) Technical measures taken to intentionally avoid or destroy the copyright to protect the copyright or copyright-related rights of his works, audio-visual products, etc. Without the permission of the copyright owner or the copyright-related obligee.

Article 218 Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, knowingly sells infringing copies specified in Article 217 of this Law, and the amount of illegal gains is huge or there are other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years and shall also, or shall only, be fined.