It concerns intellectual property rights. The Supreme Court has compiled and released 45 legal application issues.

Today, the Supreme People's Court issued the "Annual Report on Legal Application Issues of Intellectual Property Cases in National Courts". The report identified 45 legal application issues from intellectual property cases concluded by courts nationwide in 2025. The core function of the report is to sort out typical and difficult legal issues of the year, clarify judgment rules and standards, resolve the problem of "different judgments for similar cases", and uphold judicial authority. Among the 45 legal application issues announced, the 22nd issue specifies that if an artist copies murals and other works of art that have entered the public domain, and during the copying process, they repair, supplement, and creatively arrange the damaged areas of the original work in terms of lines, colors, composition, etc., making the copied work show a certain degree of originality, then the work constitutes a work of art protected by copyright law. Unauthorized reproduction of two-dimensional works of art through traditional craftsmanship, while retaining the originality of the original work, if the result of the reproduction forms a new expression distinct from the original work, if the original owner of the work claims infringement of the adaptation right of the original work, the courts should support this claim. The 23rd legal application issue clarifies that if the creator of a model contributes no originality during the process of three-dimensional representation of a work, it constitutes a copying behavior of turning the work of art "from two-dimensional to three-dimensional". Unauthorized creation of three-dimensional models of works of art owned by others without permission constitutes infringement of the reproduction rights of the work, and if publicly displayed, constitutes infringement of the exhibition rights of the work. The 27th legal application issue clarifies the recognition of unauthorized use of works created by employees after leaving their original employer: if an employee, after leaving a company, releases design drafts of works of art created during their employment period and the intellectual property rights belong to the employer without the employer's permission, and there is no evidence that the employer has explicitly relinquished the copyright of the aforementioned works of art, if the employee only defends themselves by claiming the drafts are "rough drafts" and do not infringe on copyright, the courts will not support this defense.