Copyright Act Article 3

For the purposes of this Act the following definitions shall apply:1."Work" means a creation that is within a literary, scientific, artistic, or other intellectual domain.2."Author" means a person who creates a work.3."Copyright" means the moral rights and economic rights subsisting in a completed work.4."The public" or "a public" means unspecified persons or multiple specified persons; provided, this does not apply to multiple persons of a household and the household's normal social acquaintances.5."Reproduce" means to reproduce directly, indirectly, permanently, or temporarily a work by means of printing, reprography, sound recording, video recording, photography, handwritten notes, or otherwise. This definition also applies to the sound recording or video recording of scripts, musical works, or works of similar nature during their performance or broadcast, and also includes the construction of an architectural structure based on architectural plans or models.6."Public recitation" means to communicate the content of a work to the public by spoken words or other means.7."Public broadcast" means to communicate to the public the content of a work through sounds or images by means of transmission of information by a broadcasting system of wire, wireless, or other equipment, where such communication is for the purpose of direct listening reception or viewing reception by the public. This includes any communication, by transmission of information via a broadcasting system of wire, wireless, or other equipment, to the public of an original broadcast of sounds or images by any person other than the original broadcaster.8."Public presentation" means to use single- or multiple-unit audiovisual devices, or other methods of transmitting images, to simultaneously communicate the content of a work to the public at the place of transmission or at a specified place outside the place of transmission.9."Public performance" means to act, dance, sing, play a musical instrument, or use other means to communicate the content of a work to a public that is present at the scene. This includes any communication to the public of an original broadcast of sounds or images through loudspeakers or other equipment.10."Public transmission" means to make available or communicate to the public the content of a work through sounds or images by wire or wireless network, or through other means of communication, including enabling the public to receive the content of such work by any of the above means at a time or place individually chosen by them.11."Adaptation" means to create another work based upon a preexisting work by translation, musical arrangement, revision, filming, or other means.12."Distribution" means, with or without remuneration, to provide the original of a work, or a copy thereof, to the public for the purpose of trade or circulation.13."Public display" means to display the content of a work to the public.14."Publication" means distribution by the rights holder of a sufficient number of copies of a work to satisfy a reasonable level of public demand.15."Public release" means public issue by the rights holder of the content of a work to the public through publication, broadcast, presentation, recitation, performance, display, or other means.16."The original" or "an original" means the object to which a work is first fixed.17."Electronic rights management information" means electronic information presented on the original or copies of a work, or at the time of communication of content of a work to the public, sufficient to identify the work, the name of the work, the author, the economic rights holder or person licensed thereby, and the period or conditions of exploitation of the work, including numbers or symbols that represent such information.18.“Technological protection measures” means equipment, devices, components, technology or other technological means employed by copyright owners to effectively prohibit or restrict others from accessing or exploiting works without authorization.19. "Internet service provider" means those who provide the following services:(1) Connection service provider: those who provide services, by wire or wireless means, of transmitting, routing, or receiving, information through a system or network controlled or operated by the service provider, or of the intermediate and transient storage of information in the course of such transmitting, routing, or receiving.(2) Caching service provider: those who, after information has been transmitted at the request of a user, provide services of intermediate and temporary storage of the information through a system or network controlled or operated by the service provider, for purposes of providing accelerated access to the information by users who subsequently request transmission of the information.(3) Information storage service provider: those who provide information storage services at the request of a user through a system or network controlled or operated by the service provider.(4) Search service provider: those who provide users with services, including an index, reference, or hyperlink, to search or hyperlink to online information."Place of transmission or at a specified place outside the place of transmission" as referred to in subparagraph 8 of the preceding paragraph includes motion picture cinemas, clubs, places where videocassetes or videodiscs are presented, hotel rooms, public transportation vehicles, or other places that may be accessed by unspecified persons.
中文原文 著作權法第3條
本法用詞,定義如下:
一、著作:指屬於文學、科學、藝術或其他學術範圍之創作。
二、著作人:指創作著作之人。
三、著作權:指因著作完成所生之著作人格權及著作財產權。
四、公眾:指不特定人或特定之多數人。
但家庭及其正常社交之多數人,不在此限。
五、重製:指以印刷、複印、錄音、錄影、攝影、筆錄或其他方法直接、間接、永久或暫時之重複製作。
於劇本、音樂著作或其他類似著作演出或播送時予以錄音或錄影;或依建築設計圖或建築模型建造建築物者,亦屬之。
六、公開口述:指以言詞或其他方法向公眾傳達著作內容。
七、公開播送:指基於公眾直接收聽或收視為目的,以有線電、無線電或其他器材之廣播系統傳送訊息之方法,藉聲音或影像,向公眾傳達著作內容。
由原播送人以外之人,以有線電、無線電或其他器材之廣播系統傳送訊息之方法,將原播送之聲音或影像向公眾傳達者,亦屬之。
八、公開上映:指以單一或多數視聽機或其他傳送影像之方法於同一時間向現場或現場以外一定場所之公眾傳達著作內容。
九、公開演出:指以演技、舞蹈、歌唱、彈奏樂器或其他方法向現場之公眾傳達著作內容。
以擴音器或其他器材,將原播送之聲音或影像向公眾傳達者,亦屬之。
十、公開傳輸:指以有線電、無線電之網路或其他通訊方法,藉聲音或影像向公眾提供或傳達著作內容,包括使公眾得於其各自選定之時間或地點,以上述方法接收著作內容。
十一、改作:指以翻譯、編曲、改寫、拍攝影片或其他方法就原著作另為創作。
十二、散布:指不問有償或無償,將著作之原件或重製物提供公眾交易或流通。
十三、公開展示:指向公眾展示著作內容。
十四、發行:指權利人散布能滿足公眾合理需要之重製物。
十五、公開發表:指權利人以發行、播送、上映、口述、演出、展示或其他方法向公眾公開提示著作內容。
十六、原件:指著作首次附著之物。
十七、權利管理電子資訊:指於著作原件或其重製物,或於著作向公眾傳達時,所表示足以確認著作、著作名稱、著作人、著作財產權人或其授權之人及利用期間或條件之相關電子資訊;以數字、符號表示此類資訊者,亦屬之。
十八、防盜拷措施:指著作權人所採取有效禁止或限制他人擅自進入或利用著作之設備、器材、零件、技術或其他科技方法。
十九、網路服務提供者,指提供下列服務者:
(一)連線服務提供者:透過所控制或營運之系統或網路,以有線或無線方式,提供資訊傳輸、發送、接收,或於前開過程中之中介及短暫儲存之服務者。
(二)快速存取服務提供者:應使用者之要求傳輸資訊後,透過所控制或營運之系統或網路,將該資訊為中介及暫時儲存,以供其後要求傳輸該資訊之使用者加速進入該資訊之服務者。
(三)資訊儲存服務提供者:透過所控制或營運之系統或網路,應使用者之要求提供資訊儲存之服務者。
(四)搜尋服務提供者:提供使用者有關網路資訊之索引、參考或連結之搜尋或連結之服務者。
前項第八款所定現場或現場以外一定場所,包含電影院、俱樂部、錄影帶或碟影片播映場所、旅館房間、供公眾使用之交通工具或其他供不特定人進出之場所。

English translation for reference only; the Chinese text prevails. Not legal advice.