Unlike Western countries, where copyright brokerage has existed for more than a century, Taiwan is a relative latecomer to the game. Agencies didn't emerge until the mid-1980s.
相較於版權概念已發展百年之久的歐美國家，台灣的版權觀念起步晚，遲至 1980 年代中期才有正式的版權代理公司興起。