Do I hear JASRAÇ jackboots at the door?

[matsuki]

Tokyo court rules Japan copyright group can collect fees from music schools
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20 ... na/005000c

Don't students already pay those copyright fees when they buy the sheet music?

Regrettable...unforeseeable....

And what will they do with students who only study classical music?

Didn't Sony or some Japanese company acquire the rights to that stuff? Maybe only within Japan? I swear I remember hearing that somewhere, thinking "WTF??"

[Russell]

Tokyo court rules Japan copyright group can collect fees from music schools
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20 ... na/005000c

Don't students already pay those copyright fees when they buy the sheet music?

Regrettable...unforeseeable....

And what will they do with students who only study classical music?

Didn't Sony or some Japanese company acquire the rights to that stuff? Maybe only within Japan? I swear I remember hearing that somewhere, thinking "WTF??"

They can only get the right for a performance by a certain artist, but not a right for the music of a composer who has been dead for centuries. Or so it should be in my fucking honest opinion.

[matsuki]

Or so it should be in my fucking honest opinion.

indeed...but how often do we say in frustration to "Japanese reality?"

[Grumpy Gramps]

There is also "interpretations" e.g. by directors, which have slight alterations to the originial, which can be copyrighted in their own rights again. And then there is the sheet music, where it is not the music that is protected, but the printed work that you may not copy. It's a bit of a minefield. And the Japanese are probably overzealous as always.

[Taro Toporific]

After a after six-year break, Japan’s favorite anti-piracy ads are back with an action-packed reboot!

NO MORE Eiga Dorobo ! | NO MORE 映画泥棒 (NO MORE Movie theft)
soranews24.com/2020/07/18...

[SovietSupreme]

Do I hear JASRAÇ jackboots at the door?

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Dear Comrades,

I am sad to say that today, Jan. 1 , the greedy, running dog Capitalists have placed into effect new amendments to Japan's copyright law aiming to criminalize those who both upload as well as download (new law) unlicensed manga, magazines, and academic texts from the Internet.

Japan’s Brand New Anti-Piracy Law Goes Live: Here’s How it Will Work
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While uploading pirated content has always been illegal, the new law is quite specific in that it criminalizes the downloading of unlicensed content. While that could take place in a simultaneous upload environment such as BitTorrent, it seems most likely that people will obtain content from websites instead.

That presents some roadblocks to enforcement so we asked Ina how, from a technical perspective, will the authorities track, obtain evidence, and prosecute people who simply download content (comics, movies, music etc) to their machines but don't distribute? "The authorities shall use digital forensic technologies to track suspects' activities and collect evidence.

The details of such technologies have not been publicly available," Masaharu Ina from Japan-based anti-piracy group CODA explained. "There are certain special units specialized in cyber crimes in each prefecture. For example, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police has its own Cyber Crime Control Unit. But the police do not investigate unless the person commits the crime repeatedly, intentionally and maliciously, i.e. innocent light downloaders shall not be prosecuted."
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