By Luo Yanjie

In recent, a man was judged the crime of copyright infringement (note: the link is in Chinese) by Ningbo Beilun People’s Court for his selling the pirated discs. Yet, to our understanding, the crime of selling infringing work copies provided in Article 218 of Criminal Law shall be more suitable, while as seen in this case, the criminal liability was established on the crime of copyright infringement which is in Article 217 of Criminal Law. The following is our analysis:

I. the difference between the crime of copyright infringement and selling infringing work copies