the information network;
2. Purposely avoiding or damaging technical measures;
3. Purposely deleting or changing the electronic information on the right administration of works,
performance or audio-visual products provided to the general public through the information network, or
providing, through the information network, any work, performance or audio-visual product whose
electronic information on right administration has been deleted or changed without the owner's permission
to the general public who obviously know or should have known about the deletion or change;
4. Overstepping the prescribed scope in providing any works, performance or audio-visual products to rural
areas through the information network for the purpose of alleviating poverty, or failing to pay rewards in
accordance with the announced criteria, or failing to immediately delete the works, performance or
audio-visual products that the owners disagree to provide; or
5. When providing any other person's work, performance or audio-visual product through the information
network, failing to clarify the name of the work, performance or audio-visual product or names of relevant
authors, performers, or producers of the audio-visual product, or failing to pay rewards, or failing to take
technical measures in accordance with these Regulations to prevent any person other than the service
objects from obtaining other person's work, performance or audio-visual product, or to prevent any material
damage caused to the owner's rights and interests due to the service object's act of photocopying.
Article 19 Where anyone violates these Regulations, which involves any of the following infringements, the
copyright administrative departments may give a warning, confiscate his/her illegal gains and confiscate the
equipment or components that are mainly used for avoiding or damaging technical measures. In case of any
serious circumstances, equipments such as computers, etc. that are mainly used for network services may be
confiscated and where the illegal turnover is more than CNY50,000, a fine not less than once and not more
than five times of the illegal turnover may be imposed; where there is no illegal turnover or any illegal
turnover not more than CNY50,000, a fine not more than CNY250,000 may be imposed according to the
seriousness of the case. Where a crime is constituted, the criminal liabilities shall be investigated pursuant to
law:
1. Purposely manufacturing, importing or providing any other person with any equipment or component that
is mainly applied to avoiding or breaking technical measures, or purposely providing technical services for
any other person to avoid or break technical measures;
2. Providing any other person's works, performance or audio-visual products through the information
network to gain economic benefits; or
3. When providing any work, performance or audio-visual product to rural areas through the information
network for the purpose of alleviating poverty, failing to publicize the name of the work, performance or
audio-visual product or names of relevant authors, performers, or producers of the audio-visual product and
the criteria for rewards before they are provided.
Article 20 Where any network service provider provides the network automatic access service pursuant to
the instructions of service objects, or provides the service of automatic transmission of works, performance
or audio-visual products to its service objects, and the following conditions are satisfied, it shall not be
required to assume the liability for compensation:
1. Having not chosen or changed the transmitted works, performance or audio-visual products; and
2. Providing the works, performance or audio-visual products to the designated service objects and
preventing any person other than the designated service objects from obtaining the access.
Article 21 Where a network service provider obtains the works, performance or audio-visual products from
any other network service provider for the purpose of improving the efficiency of network transmission and
automatic storage, and automatically provides the aforesaid work to its service objects based on technical
arrangement, and the following conditions are satisfied, it shall not be required to assume the liability for
compensation:
1. Having not changed any of the works, performance or audio-visual products that are automatically stored;
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