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July 30, 2008 11:39 AM
IP Office Overhauls Draft ISP Liability Bill
The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) announced in July 2008 substantial revisions to draft Copyright Act amendments issued in January of this year concerning the liability of internet service providers for copyright infringement by network users.
In the revised draft, the TIPO has not included previously proposed amendments to Article 88 and Article 90.5 of the act that expressly establish liability for parties (read “ISPs”) found to aid or abet copyright infringement or parties who were aware, or ought to have been aware, that a user has exploited their services to infringe the copyright of another. The TIPO has thereby indicated that existing provisions of the act and the Civil Code sufficiently establish liability with respect to ISPs.
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