On February 14th, Beijing Press Center held a special press conference, focusing on the overall situation of comprehensively strengthening intellectual property protection for Winter Olympics. 

At the meeting, deputy director of the Copyright Administration Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department introduced recent cases of manufacturing and selling pirated Winter Olympic mascots, where the suspect was sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of 40,000 yuan, which became the first criminal case of infringement over the copyright of Beijing Winter Olympic mascot image in China. 

According to the deputy director of the Copyright Administration Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department, except for the "fair use situation" specially stipulated by law, other unlicensed use behaviors in the sense of copyright, such as the production of toys and dolls by merchants without the permission of the obligee, or the use of them in peripheral derivative products such as clothing, may constitute infringement. Those who harm public interests will be subject to administrative punishment; should the act constitute a crime, criminal responsibility will be investigated.