According to the provisions of Article 47 of the Copyright Law, anyone who plagiarizes another person's work shall bear civil liabilities such as stopping the infringement, eliminating the influence, apologizing and compensating for the losses. At the same time, if the original author's works are copied in large quantities and have a wide influence, and the infringer gains a great reputation, the original author may claim compensation for mental damage according to law.

In addition to the above administrative and civil responsibilities, plagiarism of others' written works for profit may also involve criminal responsibility if the circumstances are serious. According to the provisions of China's criminal law, copying and distributing a written work for profit without the permission of the copyright owner, with a large amount of illegal income or other serious circumstances, constitutes a crime of copyright infringement, and is sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, with a fine or a single 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 but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.

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Legal interpretation:

Plagiarism infringement, like other infringements, requires four elements:

First, the behavior is illegal;

Second, objective facts that are harmful;

Third, there is a causal relationship with the damage facts;

Fourth, the actor is at fault.

Because plagiarism needs to be published to produce infringement consequences, that is, the objective fact of damage, it is usually referred to as published plagiarism when identifying plagiarism. Therefore, more accurately, plagiarism refers to stealing other people's works or publishing fragments of works.

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