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What acts are considered copyright infringement?

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What actions are considered copyright infringement?

Copyright infringement involves actions that violate the rights of an author or copyright owner regarding a work. These actions include copying, distributing, performing, or using a work without the copyright owner's permission. Additionally, falsifying, altering, or removing copyright management information is also considered infringement. Understanding infringement acts helps protect authors' rights and prevent copyright violations.

According to Article 28 Intellectual Property Law 2005 regulations: Acts of copyright infringement include:

1. Appropriating copyright to literary, artistic, and scientific works.

2. Impersonate the author.

3. Publish or distribute works without the author's permission.

4. Publish or distribute co-authored works without that co-author's permission.

5. Edit, mutilate or distort the work in any form that harms the author's honor and reputation.

6. Copying works without permission of the author or copyright owner, except for the cases specified in Points a and dd, Clause 1, Article 25 of this Law.

7. Making derivative works without the permission of the author or copyright owner of the work used to make derivative works, except for the case specified in Point i, Clause 1, Article 25 of this Law.

8. Using the work without the permission of the copyright owner, not paying royalties, remunerations, or other material benefits as prescribed by law, except for the case specified in Clause 1, Article 25 of this Law. This law.

9. Renting works without paying royalties, remunerations and other material benefits to the author or copyright owner.

10. Duplicate, produce copies, distribute, display or communicate works to the public via communication networks and digital means without the permission of the copyright owner.

11. Publishing works without the permission of the copyright owner.

12. Intentionally canceling or invalidating technical measures taken by the copyright owner to protect the copyright of his or her work.

13. Intentionally deleting or changing rights management information in electronic form contained in the work.

14. Manufacturing, assembling, transforming, distributing, importing, exporting, selling or leasing equipment knowing or having grounds to know that such equipment invalidates technical measures taken by the copyright owner Authors take steps to protect copyright in their works.

15. Making and selling works where the author's signature is forged.

16. Exporting, importing, distributing copies of works without the permission of the copyright owner."