Taiwan: IT and Internet

According to Article 3, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 11 of the Copyright Act, an "adaptation" refers to the creation of another work based on a pre-existing work by translation, musical arrangement, revision, filming, or other means.

While both criminal data and medical records are considered "sensitive data" under the Personal Information Protection Act, a newly proposed amendment puts medical records into yet another category in which public interest is no longer a justifiable reason for collecting them.

Taiwan’s legal system offers several useful tools for taking action against infringers in technology cases that offer good value for rights holders willing to think flexibly. With the decriminalization of patent infringement over the past several years, purely civil patent claims can be effective but do not have the strength of a combined assault on the infringer using patent, copyright, attachment of assets, trade-secrets, fair-trade, contract and import/export laws. When possible, we recommend