Is plagiarism in novels a crime?

Legal analysis: novel plagiarism is certainly considered a crime. The author of the novel is owned by the copyright, copyright, also known as copyright, refers to the author and other rights holders of literary, artistic and scientific works enjoy the general term of personal and property rights. The protection of copyright mainly includes the basic principles of copyright, the protection of the subject of copyright, the object of copyright protection, the content of copyright protection, the duration of copyright protection, as well as infringement of the relevant legal responsibility.

Legal basis: "the Chinese people's *** and the Criminal Law" Article 217 The crime of infringement of copyright for the purpose of profit, one of the following infringement of copyright, the amount of unlawful income is relatively large or other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, or detention, and or a single fine; the amount of unlawful income is huge or other particularly serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to three years to seven years. Fixed-term imprisonment and a fine:

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

(2) publishing books for which others have exclusive publishing rights;

(3) without the permission of the producer of audio-visual recordings, copying and distributing audio-visual recordings produced by him;

(d) the production and sale of works of art under false pretenses