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Is it illegal to sell videos?
Legal Analysis: Selling videos may be illegal. It is illegal for the actor to copy and distribute his music, film, television and video works for profit without the permission of the copyright owner. If the amount of illegal income is relatively large, it constitutes a crime of copyright infringement. Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, sells infringing copies clearly stipulated by law, and the amount of illegal income is huge, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also or only be fined.

Legal basis: Article 225 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), in violation of state regulations, commits one of the following illegal business operations, disrupting market order, and if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times his illegal income or his property shall be confiscated: (1) dealing in franchise, monopoly goods or other commodities whose business is restricted by laws and administrative regulations without permission; (2) buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated by laws and administrative regulations; (three) without the approval of the relevant competent departments of the state, illegally engaged in securities, futures, insurance business, or illegally engaged in fund payment and settlement business; (four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the market order.