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Is it illegal to sell pirated books? How to judge?
Legal analysis: breaking the law is not only illegal but also serious enough to constitute a crime. The amount of illegal business is more than 50,000 yuan; Spreading others' works with a total number of more than 500 pieces (departments); Whoever spreads other people's works and is actually hit more than 50,000 times shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also or only be fined.

Legal basis: Article 217 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) infringes copyright or copyright-related rights for the purpose of making profits, and the amount of illegal income is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and shall also or only be fined; If the amount of illegal income is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years and shall also be fined:

(1) Reproduction, distribution and dissemination of written works, music, fine arts, audio-visual works, computer software and other works prescribed by laws and administrative regulations to the public without the permission of the copyright owner;

(2) Publishing books with exclusive publishing rights enjoyed by others;

(3) Reproduction, distribution and dissemination of audio and video products made by the producer to the public through the information network without the permission of the producer;

(4) Reproduction and distribution of audio and video products of their performances without the permission of performers, or dissemination of their performances to the public through information networks;

(five) the production and sale of counterfeit works of art;

(6) Technical measures taken to intentionally avoid or destroy the copyright to protect the copyright or copyright-related rights of his works, audio-visual products, etc. Without the permission of the copyright owner or the copyright-related obligee.