Is the screenshot illegal?

if it is for profit, it is illegal to reprint other people's works with the consent of the copyright owner or pay remuneration. If the other party holds you accountable, you will have to make financial compensation. If you are only for personal use or study, the general reprinting is legal. Intellectual property rights refer to "the exclusive rights enjoyed by the obligee to the intellectual labor results created by him", which are generally valid only for a limited period of time. All kinds of intellectual creations, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, as well as signs, names, images and designs used in business, can be regarded as intellectual property rights owned by a certain person or organization. Malicious screenshots are illegal. According to the severity of the consequences caused by the incident, if it rises to serious acts such as personal attack, life safety and property safety, it is necessary to bear criminal responsibility. It depends on whether the circumstances are serious and whether it is for profit. Portrait owners have the right to demand to stop the infringement and apologize. An act that constitutes an infringement of the right to portrait should have the following two elements: one is to use the portrait, and the other is to use the portrait without the consent of the portrait owner or without justifiable reasons. Specifically, there are the following kinds of violations of portrait rights: (1) using the portrait of the right holder for profit without the consent of the right holder; (2) Showing, making public, displaying, copying and distributing the portrait of the right holder without the consent of the right holder, although it is not for profit.

: the screenshot of the mobile phone counts as evidence. Electronic data refers to information formed or stored in electronic media through e-mail, electronic data exchange, online chat records, blogs, micro-blogs, mobile phone short messages, electronic signatures, domain names, etc. Therefore, mobile phone screenshots can be submitted to the people's court as evidence. The people's court shall, according to the claims of the parties and the trial of the case, determine the evidence that the parties should provide and its time limit. If it is really difficult for the parties to provide evidence within the time limit, they may apply to the people's court for an extension of the time limit, and the people's court shall extend the time limit appropriately according to the application of the parties. If a party provides evidence within the time limit, the people's court shall order it to explain the reasons; If the people refuse to explain the reasons or the reasons are untenable, the people's court may, according to different circumstances, reject the evidence, or accept the evidence but admonish it and impose a fine.

legal basis: article 38 of the constitution of the people's Republic of China, the personal dignity of citizens of the people's Republic of China is inviolable.

Article 42 of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment commits one of the following acts, and shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 5 yuan: (2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others; (six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.

article 118th of the civil code of the people's Republic of China * * * natural persons have the right to make, use, disclose or permit others to use their own portraits according to law. Portrait is an external image of a specific natural person that can be recognized on a certain carrier through images, sculptures and paintings.