There is such a thing as criminal copyright but it usually applies to large scale commercial type infringements. It is dangerous to generalise amongst jurisdictions since legislation in various countries changes as they try to come to grips with the issue. For the UK see the following government publication for an overview:
Intellectual Property Offences
Generally breaching copyright in the course of a business or for commercial gain or further sharing content may be a criminal offence, but of course I am simply commenting and not giving legal advice. You should not of course rely on any comments I make.