Taiwan launched its very first Intellectual Property Court on Tuesday, part of the country's efforts to prove to the West that it is taking copyright crime - rife in the country - really rather seriously.
The court has been based on similar institutions in the US, Japan and Germany, and the judges who sit there will have had specific training on all things IP and copyright ensuring they know what's going on when content owners, including major record companies, take action against those who they reckon are infringing their copyrights.
One lawyer based in Taiwan capital Taipei, John Eastwood, told Billboard: "Once the local confidence in handling IP cases is increased among judges, prosecutors and court staff, we are going to see a big improvement".
While the establishment of the court should make things easier for content owners like record companies to pursue actions in Taiwan, the Deputy Director General of the country's Intellectual Property Office says she hopes content owners will not use the court to pursue litigation rather than negotiating fair licensing deals with the people who use their music.
Billboard say that Margaret Chen says she hopes record companies will not automatically go running to the new court rather than trying to do business with Taiwanese companies looking to establish legitimate music platforms.