Identification of illegal publications

Legal analysis: illegal publications refer to newspapers, periodicals, books, audio tapes, video tapes and so on. Printed by a non-statutory publishing unit and publicly distributed in the society; Buying and selling publications printed with book number, serial number and version number, or engaging in publishing speculation, cooperative publishing and printing on behalf of others in violation of regulations; Books, newspapers and periodicals, audio-visual tapes edited and copied by non-publishing units, etc. For internal use without the approval of the publishing administrative organ; Publications with obscene and reactionary contents; Other publications that violate publishing laws and regulations.

Legal basis: Notice on Several Issues Concerning the Identification and Banning of Illegal Publications.

The Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate's Notice on Abstract Forwarding clearly stipulates: "All newspapers, periodicals, books, audio tapes, video tapes, etc. Publications printed by publishing units without state approval and publicly distributed in the society are illegal publications. " The main forms of such illegal publications are: "pretending to be a non-existent publishing unit and printing publications;" "Stealing a publication printed in the name of a publishing unit approved by the state;" "Illegally printing and making legal publications, and publicly issuing and selling publications in the society;" "Publicly issued publications without the signatures of publishing units or non-publishing units;" "Printers print and add publications without authorization for the purpose of obtaining illegal profits;" "Members of a publishing unit that has been explicitly dissolved reprint or publish publications in the name of the original editorial department without authorization;" "Other public publications printed by non-publishing units. “