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Title: COPYRIGHT ACT CH
Category: Ministry of Economic Affairs(經濟部)
Chapter III Authors and Copyright
Section 4 Economic Rights
Subsection 1 Categories of Economic Rights
Article 22
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, authors have the exclusive right to reproduce their works.
Performers have the exclusive right to reproduce their performances by means of sound recording, video recording, or photography.
The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply to temporary reproduction that is transient, incidental, an essential part of a technology process, and without independent economic significance, where solely for the purpose of lawful network relay transmission, or for the lawful use of a work; provided, this shall not apply to computer programs.
In the preceding paragraph, the phrase "temporary reproduction… for the purpose of lawful network relay transmission" includes technically unavoidable phenomena of the computer or machine occurring in network browsing, caching, or other processes for enhancing transmission efficiency.
Article 23
Authors of oral and literary works have the exclusive right to publicly recite their works.
Article 24
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, authors have the exclusive right to publicly broadcast their works.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall not apply to further public broadcasts of a performance after that performance has been reproduced or publicly broadcast.
Article 25
Authors of audiovisual works have the exclusive right to publicly present their works.
Article 26
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, authors of oral and literary, musical, and dramatic/choreographic works have the exclusive right to publicly perform their works.
Performers have the exclusive right, by means of loudspeakers or other equipment, to publicly perform their performances; provided, this shall not apply to public performances of a performance by means of loudspeakers or other equipment after that performance has been reproduced or publicly broadcast.
Where a sound recording has been publicly performed, the author may claim payment of remuneration for use from the persons who publicly performed it.
Article 26-1
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, authors of works have the exclusive right of public transmission of their works.
Performers have the exclusive right of public transmission of their performances reproduced in sound recordings.
Article 27
Authors of unpublished fine arts or photographic works have the exclusive right to publicly display the original and copies of their works.
Article 28
Authors of works have the exclusive right to adapt their works into derivative works or to compile their works into compilation works; provided, this shall not apply to performances.
Article 28-1
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, authors of works have the exclusive right to distribute their works through transfer of ownership.
Performers have the exclusive right to distribute their performances reproduced in sound recordings through transfer of ownership.
Article 29
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, authors of works have the exclusive right to rent their works.
Performers have the exclusive right to rent their performances reproduced in sound recordings.
Article 29-1
An employer or commissioning party that has obtained the economic rights in a work in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 11 or paragraph 2 of Article 12 shall have exclusive enjoyment of the rights set out in the provisions of Articles 22 through 29.