Moral Rights - in The Republic of China (Taiwan)

In The Republic of China (Taiwan)

In the jurisdiction of the Republic of China, the Copyright Act has provided authors' perpetual moral rights with regard of attribution and protection against alteration in bad faith, even if the works are in the public domain, as follows:

  • Article 25 of the Copyright Act 1928
  • Article 21 of the Copyright Act 1944
  • Article 21 of the Copyright Act 1948, unchanged from the 1944 Act (The effective jurisdiction of the Republic of China became limited to Taiwan Area in 1949.)
  • Article 21 of the Copyright Act 1964, unchanged from the 1948 Act
  • Article 26 of the Copyright Act 1985
  • Article 26 of the Copyright Act 1990, unchanged from the 1985 Act
  • Section 3, Articles 15-21 of the Copyright Act 1992, with the Article unchanged in the subsequent versions of the Copyright Act

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