Plagiarism refers to plagiarizing other people's works for yourself. Including completely copying other people's works and changing their form or content to some extent. It is an act of infringing the copyright of others. If the circumstances are minor and constitute a civil infringement, there are four elements of the infringement: the infringement is committed; Cause damage; There is a causal relationship between behavior and result; The actor has subjective fault. In plagiarism, plagiarism is carried out, which leads to the damage of the copyright owner's reputation right and indirect interests. Plagiarists are subjectively at fault, so plagiarism constitutes infringement. Plagiarists should bear civil liability for compensation, and also need to apologize for the copyright owner and restore his reputation. If the circumstances are serious, it may also constitute a crime of copyright infringement, which is a crime aimed at making profits, violating the laws and regulations on the administration of works, infringing the copyright of others without the permission of the copyright owner, and the illegal income is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances. Need to bear criminal responsibility. According to Article 47 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), anyone who commits one of the following infringements shall bear civil liabilities such as stopping the infringement, eliminating the influence, making an apology and compensating for the losses according to the circumstances: (1) publishing his works without the permission of the copyright owner; (2) publishing a work created in cooperation with others as a work created by oneself without the permission of a co-author; (three) did not participate in the creation, in order to seek personal fame and fortune, signed other people's works; (4) distorting or tampering with other people's works; (5) Plagiarizing other people's works; (6) Using a work by exhibition, shooting or similar shooting without the permission of the copyright owner, or using a work by adaptation, translation or annotation, except as otherwise provided by this Law; (seven) the use of another person's work, which should be paid but not paid; (8) Renting works or audio-visual products without the permission of the copyright owner or copyright-related obligee of film works and works created by similar film production methods, computer software and audio-visual products, except as otherwise provided by this Law; (9) Using the layout design of books and periodicals published by publishers without their permission; (10) Live broadcast or public dissemination of a live performance or recording of a performance without the permission of the performer; (eleven) other acts of infringement of copyright and copyright-related rights and interests.