Taipei, July 25 (CNA) Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang (KMT) on Monday accused former Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) of rushing the reopening of the Hsinchu Baseball Stadium for political reasons, which the party said had led to the facility's closure after only two games, amid multiple reports of building flaws.
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On Thursday last week, Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) visited the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office to file a lawsuit accusing Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) and his former thesis adviser at Chung Hua University of contravening the Copyright Act (著作權法). Wang said she also intended to accuse Lin of misappropriating and plagiarizing state property.
With regard to this case, it must be said that Wang has some misunderstandings about copyright.
First, the lawful complainant in a criminal case under the act is the copyright owner or exclusive licensee, whereas Wang is neither of these. Wang’s filing of this lawsuit might
Allegations that Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) plagiarized his 2008 master’s thesis were a hot topic in the news this week.
If Lin had not been nominated to run for Taoyuan mayor, such a trivial report would not have been newsworthy.
However, elections commonly raise accusations of plagiarism linked to candidates, whether they graduated from top universities, private universities or universities of technology.
As an educator, I lament the stigmatization of higher education in Taiwan.
Kaohsiung City Councilor Jane Lee (李眉蓁), who was the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) candidate in the 2020 Kaohsiung mayoral by-election, was also