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Download A man has been sentenced to six months in jail and fined 2,000 yuan ($320) after being convicted of illegally publishing copies of the works of Mo Yan winner of last year's Nobel Prize in literature. The National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications said on Monday that Wan Yongshen published 3,000 illegal copies of Mo's books. Haidian District People's Court in Beijing delivered its verdict on Wan on April 9. The office said it had been involved in fighting 36 important copyright cases, including Wan's case, in 2017, in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Security, National Copyright Administration, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate. Meanwhile, the office disclosed 10 most common forms of copyright infringement cases that it fought in 2017. Among them, the most serious punishment handed out was an 11-year prison sentence in Tianjin, while the highest fine was 3.2 million yuan, for a copyright case in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. The office said that in 2017, 5,331 copyright infringement cases had been solved nationwide and more than 40 million pirated items confiscated or destroyed. Helped with larger numbers involved in fighting piracy between January and March, the number of cases has gradually dropped, it said. The key target for 2013 will be piracy by online bookstores, e-commerce platforms and audition websites. | 
