Last year, we noted that the “fast movie” (ファスト映画, fast-eiga), edited abbreviations with story spoilers of full-length movies, had caused huge damage to movie companies in Japan recently. And we reported that some people had been arrested on charges of…
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On October 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of Japan issued its decision to dismiss the appeal against the IP High Court’s March 2021 ruling regarding the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC)’s trying to force music…
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In short order after our update from last week, another update to an intellectual property issue found in our archives has come up. Cloudflare, having complied with Japanese courts before, now is hit with a new accusation of accountability for…
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Goldfish, bred for centuries in Japan, are a major business in Nara Prefecture’s Yamato-Koriyama city. Barely used telephone booths are common around Japan. Modern artist Yamamoto Nobuki combined the two to promote water protection in his work “Message” in 2000,…
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