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HIRING OUT UNLICENSED COPIES OF OPTICAL DISKS INFRINGES COPYRIGHT
Article 60 of the Copyright Law provides that except for copies of sound recordings and com-puter programs, the owner of a legal copy of a copyright work may hire out that copy. However, in a recent judgment, the Shihlin District Court ruled that an original optical disk intended for sale in the US but purchased in the ROC through an intermediary was not a legally imported genuine article; therefore, Article 60 did not ap-ply, and offering such a disk for hire infringed copyright. Also, offering an original optical disk for hire in conjunction with an unlicensed Chi-nese-language subtitle cartridge infringed the legally authorized agent right's to adapt the work by translating subtitles.