Is Internal Circulation Book Subject to Publication Permission?

Clause 1 Article 4 of the 2012 Publishing Law stipulates as follows:

- Publishing is the organization and exploitation of manuscripts, editing into sample copies for printing and distribution or for direct distribution through electronic means.

Clause 4 of this Article further stipulates:

- Publications are works, materials on politics, economics, culture, society, education and training, science, technology, literature, and art that are published through a publisher or an agency, organization granted a publishing license in various languages, using images, sounds, and presented in the following forms:

+ Printed books;

+ Braille books;

+ Paintings, photographs, maps, posters, leaflets, brochures;

+ Calendars of various types;

+ Recorded audio, video content replacing books or illustrating books.

Therefore, the printing and distribution of manuscripts in book form for internal circulation is also considered a publishing act.

Additionally, Clause 2 Article 10 of the 2012 Publishing Law strictly prohibits the following actions:

- Publishing without registration, without a publishing decision, or without a publishing license;

- Altering or distorting the content of the approved manuscript or non-commercial manuscript documents with the stamp of the licensing agency;

- Illegal printing, counterfeit printing, unauthorized additional printing of publications;

- Distributing publications without legal origin or not submitting archives;

- Publishing, printing, distributing publications that have been suspended, recalled, confiscated, banned from circulation, destroyed, or illegally imported;

- Other prohibited actions as prescribed by law.

Thus, books for internal circulation must also obtain a publishing license.

Respectfully!