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Is it civil or criminal to plagiarize articles used for evaluating professional titles? How serious will it be?
It is a common practice to contact a publication to publish several articles in order to evaluate professional titles. As everyone in the region knows, no one will report it, that is, at most, he will be verbally condemned or talked behind his back.

Someone will report it and the evidence is conclusive, which can prove that the copyright of the published articles is really owned by others, and it should be divided into specific circumstances.

Don't be afraid at first, it is likely to be blackmail, and we need to pay attention to it when he comes up with evidence. It depends on the circumstances.

Section 7 Crimes of Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights

Article 213 Where a trademark identical to its registered trademark is used on the same

commodity without the permission of the owner of the registered trademark, if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, 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.

Article 214 Whoever knowingly sells goods with counterfeit registered trademarks, with a relatively large amount of sales

, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also

or shall only be fined; If the sales amount is huge, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not less than seven years with a fine.

Article 215 Whoever forges or

manufactures without authorization another person's registered trademark logo or sells the forged or

manufactured registered trademark logo, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than

three years, criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also, or shall only, be fined;

if the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall be fined

.

Article 216 Whoever counterfeits another person's patent, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined.

Article 217 Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, commits one of the following forms of copyright infringement, 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 or criminal detention 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 seven years, and shall also be fined:

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

(2) publishing books with exclusive publishing rights enjoyed by others;

(3) reproducing and distributing

audio and video recordings made by the producer without the permission of the producer;

(4) producing or selling works of art with forged signatures of others.

Article 218 Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, knowingly sells infringing copies as stipulated in Article 2

117 of this Law, and the amount of illegal gains is huge, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined.

Article 219 Whoever commits one of the following acts of infringing on business secrets, thus causing heavy losses to the obligee of business secrets, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If especially serious consequences are caused, 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:

(1) obtaining

the business secrets of the obligee by theft, inducement, coercion or other improper means;

(2) disclosing, using or allowing others to use the means mentioned in the preceding paragraph to obtain the business secrets of the obligee of

;

(3) disclosing, using or allowing others to use the business secrets they have

in violation of the agreement or the obligee's

requirements on keeping business secrets.

knowing or should know the acts listed in the preceding paragraph, obtaining, using or disclosing the trade secrets of other people

will infringe on the theory of trade secrets.

the trade secrets mentioned in this article refer to

technical information and business information that are not known to the public, can bring economic benefits to the obligee

and are practical and have been kept confidential by the obligee.

the obligee mentioned in this article refers to the owner of a trade secret and the user of the trade secret with the permission of the owner of the trade secret

.

article 22 if a unit commits the crimes specified in articles 213 to 219 of this section, it shall be fined, and the

person in charge and other directly responsible personnel who are directly responsible for it shall be fined according to the provisions of each article of this section.