Beijing, January 8 (Reporter Zhang Xuan) Recently, the Supreme People's Procuratorate released a typical case of punishing the crime of copyright infringement in accordance with the law. There are 6 typical cases in this batch, covering not only traditional fields such as audio-visual works and books, but also cultural and creative industries such as assembling toys and script killing. According to statistics, from January to November 2023, procuratorial organs across the country have accepted, reviewed and prosecuted more than 2,500 copyright infringement crimes, an increase of 17 times, the punishment of copyright infringement crimes has been continuously increased.
One of the cases shows that in order to obtain illegal benefits, Ke Moumou used crawler software to collect more than 50,000 movies, TV series and other audiovisual works from *** in order to obtain illegal benefits, and stored them on a rented server. Through technical analysis, Ke Moumou will store the audio-visual works stored in the server ** to his personal operation and management ** and "XX Cinema" APP, and provide them to netizens for free**. At the same time, Ke Moumou undertook advertising business and made illegal profits totaling more than 350,000 yuan.
In the course of handling the case, the procuratorate accurately determined the number of infringing works by comprehensively reviewing evidence such as mobile phone chat records, back-end and server data details of online platforms. In April 2023, the court sentenced the defendant Ke Moumou to 3 years in prison, suspended for 4 years, and fined RMB 400,000 for copyright infringement.
The person in charge of the Intellectual Property Procuratorate Office of the Supreme People's Procuratorate said that the procuratorate will strengthen the protection of copyrights in traditional fields such as films, books, and copyrights, focus on key issues in new technologies, new formats and new fields such as computer software, digital copyright, and cultural creativity, continue to deepen the comprehensive performance of duties, and jointly carry out special work with relevant departments to supervise the listing and crack down on infringement and piracy.
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