When the World Football matches start, business venues must obtain legal authorization to broadcast football matches.

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[Reporter Lin Jinghua/Report from Taipei] The FIFA World Cup is in full swing, and the country has returned to life in the post-epidemic era. People are crazy about football and like to choose sports bars and restaurants to enjoy the game together. Bar operators and other business establishments must legally obtain an "exclusive authorization" to broadcast events on large screens.

For this year's World Cup domestically, Elda TV obtained the general agency broadcast rights in Taiwan, and authorized Chunghwa Telecom and China Vision to obtain new media and cable TV broadcast rights.

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An official from the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs explained that if a sports event has an anchor, commentators, mirrors, shooting, etc., and the screen will be edited before it is broadcast, it can be regarded as an "audio-visual work" and is protected by copyright law.

Officials explained that general business establishments must pay attention to whether they are "legal signal sources" and "obtain authorized scope".

People watch at home and obtain signals through legal subscription methods, so there will be no public broadcast problems; but if they want to broadcast in public places in sports bars and restaurants, they must first confirm whether it is a public broadcast version and the scope of public broadcasting before they can be used in public places. Therefore, In addition to legally subscribing, you must also purchase the "public broadcast version".

Alda TV previously reminded all stores and business places in Taiwan on Facebook that the purchase of Chunghwa Telecom MOD public broadcast meal - Alda Sports Station is a legal authorized signal; For parties, you need to go through a formal submission for review.

If the copyright owner files a criminal complaint without prior authorization, he may be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of up to 3 years or a fine of up to NT$750,000 in accordance with Article 92 of the Copyright Law.

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