The fiction writer Huang Chun-ming previously took a lenient attitude toward counterfeiters, but this April sued a publishing house for pirating his work. The revised law, said Huang, had emboldened many heretofore unworldly authors to demand their rights in the marketplace.
鄉土小說作家黃春明，就捨棄以往「姑息」政策，在今年四月，對盜印「兒子的大玩偶」一書的大林書局，提出控訴。他指出，自從著作權法修正公佈後，著作物的保護變得有效而具體。