Legal analysis: Playing music or movies in restaurants constitutes infringement. Playing music or movies in public places requires the authorization of the right holder. If it is not authorized, it is an act of infringing the copyright of others. If the circumstances are serious, it may also constitute a crime. Acts of infringing others' copyright include copying, plagiarism, tampering and making profits.
Legal basis: Article 217 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China
Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, copies and distributes audio and video recordings made by the producers of audio and video recordings without their permission,
If the illegal income is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, 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 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.
Article 221 Where a unit commits the crimes specified in Articles 213 to 219 of this section, it shall be fined.
The directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of each article of this section.