Please remind students to use legal versions of textbooks (including second-hand books); do not infringe upon intellectual property rights by scanning without permission, making a pirate copy, downloading or uploading any books or materials illegally
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1. According to Copyright Act, authors have the right to reproduce and publicly transmit their work. Since “scanning, copying, downloading, or uploading” are means of reproduction, it’s necessary to follow the Copyright Act when copying other people’s work. A copy must meet the fair use definition in Copyright Act article 44 and article 65 and receive the intellectual property right holder’s permission or authorization.
2.When students scan, copy, download or upload Chinese or foreign language textbooks, whether the whole content at once, most of the content or all the material at separate times, none of these meet the definition of fair use. This behavior is considered a violation of copyright, for which violators must bear responsibility under criminal law and civil law once the intellectual property right holder resorts to legal measures. Faculty and staff members, please remind students use legal versions of textbooks (including second-hand books). Do not break the law by making a pirate copy of any books illegally!
3.All the faculty and staff members can go to Intellectual Property Office website
(https://topic.tipo.gov.tw/copyright-tw/lp-415-301.html (link is external)) to download
the guideline for themselves. (Home Page of Intellectual Property Office>Copyright>Copyright Knowledge+>Copyright on Campus)