Does the publishing house need to bear the responsibility for publishing books infringement?
According to the third paragraph of Article 20 of the Supreme People's Court's Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Copyright Civil Disputes, "If the publisher has done his duty of reasonable care, and the copyright owner has no evidence to prove that the publisher should know that his publication involves infringement, according to the first paragraph of Article 117 of the General Principles of the Civil Law, the publisher shall bear the civil liability of stopping the infringement and returning the profits from the infringement." Therefore, in the relevant infringement judgments of publishing houses, publishing houses generally only bear the responsibility of stopping infringement or returning profits.