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June 2019

The Copyright Law is amended, and operators providing set-top boxes or Apps which link to infringing websites will be deemed copyright-infringing (Taiwan)

June 2019

Except when laws and regulations are obviously violated or when a party has produced new litigation materials sufficient to reverse the original determination, the court and the parties shall not make any opposite determination or assertion about important issues which have been determined by the court in a lawsuit filed by the same party for such important issues (Taiwan)

June 2019

In case of any doubt as to the application scope of an interested party to a public servant when the interested party to a public servant is being defined, a strict and restrictive interpretation should be rendered; and, therefore, directors stipulated under Article 3, Subparagraph 4 of the Law on the Recusal of Public Servants Due to Conflicts of Interest before amendment should not include independent directors (Taiwan)

June 2019

In case of an employee's exercise of a warrant with the acquisition of stock as the exercise timing, the positive difference between the closing price of the target stock on the exercise date and the subscription price of the stock shall be the income, and taxation on such basis does not violate the principle of the ability to pay (Taiwan)

June 2019

If an employer retains an employment institution to provide care services to foreign workers, relevant expenses shall not be directly collected by the employment institution from the foreign workers to offset the retainer fees payable by the employers (Taiwan)

June 2019

Even though a group insurance applicant has agreed with a worker not to make accurate filings, the monthly insurance salary should still be reported accurately; and since the worker cannot facilitate the occurrence of false filings or the aggravation of damage, the fault-balance principle certainly does not apply (Taiwan)