On November 27th, the Huai’an Intermediate People’s Court of Jiangsu Province publicly sentenced the “2.22” copyright infringement case in Huai’an, which was reported by the writer Zheng Yuanjie in real name, and sentenced the defendant Beijing Xinsheng Jianda Books Co., Ltd. and Beijing Hongrui Jianxing Culture Communication Co., Ltd. fined RMB 500,000 each; the defendants Wang Cheng and Li Huixiong were sentenced to four years, three years and six months of actual imprisonment, and a fine of RMB 3 million and 2.6 million yuan; Qi Wenjuan and other seven defendants were sentenced to a suspended sentence of under three years, and a total fine of 630,000 yuan; the defendant Wu Xueqing was sentenced to the crime of illegally manufacturing and selling illegally manufactured registered trademarks of three years of imprisonment, four years of probation, and a fine of 60,000 yuan. One of the defendants failed to appear in court due to special reasons, and the court will choose another date to pronounce the judgment towards him.

On October 20, Jiangsu Province Huaian City Intermediate People’s Court trialed the copyright infringement case of the Beijing Xinsheng Jianda Books Co. Ltd., Beijing Hongrui Jianxing Culture Communication Co. Ltd., and eleven defendants, including Wang for the first instance.

Zheng Yuanjie, Beijing Pipilu General Mobilization Culture Technology Co. Ltd. real-name reported this copyright infringement case. According to the investigation, the defendant Wang got the Book Selling License from the companies he and his mother owns: Xinsheng and Hongrui Company. Wang got the book printing manuscript which infringed the copyright from the defendants Chai and Guo, and sent it to five defendants, including Li, to print. Wang even attached the ‘Anti-counterfeiting Label’ on the copyright-infringed books. The defendant Wang asked five others, including Qi, to sell the books through online platforms, and formed the one-stop progress including plate-making, printing, storing, transportation, selling, and making anti-counterfeiting label.

As investigated, the total amount involved in printing and selling the copyright infringement books was more than ten million of more than one million copies, including twenty-one infringed publishing house.