Japan Decides Fair Use Is A Good Thing
from the and-we-agree dept
The entertainment industry in the US has been conducting a worldwide campaign to diminish the concept of "fair use" -- even to the point of accusing other countries that have US-style fair use systems of allowing piracy. However, the campaign appears to have failed in Japan, which does not currently have a "fair use" exception in its copyright law. However, as sent in by Petrea Mitchell, Japan is now adding the concept of fair use to its copyright law, and doing so following the US's own concept of fair use. Does this mean that Japan will soon be added to the bogus watch list of foreign countries that don't respect copyright?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Not US Industry's Cup of Tea ... Too Bad
Hmmmmm, I guess they just don't understand that the US industry is the only thing in the world that counts (at least according to US lobbyists and corporate greed pigs).
At least the Japanese got it right, seems like something the US can't do ... get it right for its own people.
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Re: Not US Industry's Cup of Tea ... Too Bad
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Good.
Then again, no surprise.
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Re: Good.
Also its good to note that they are major advocates of fair use more so than we (US) are given Comic Market twice a year. 400K to 500K attendance each with many selling doujinshi (community magazines) which are basically fanzines or derivative works of given medias without license. These are seen as breeding grounds and some of the great names in the industry such as CLAMP and Gainax came from this.
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Oh ya US not making fake! must be on Crack?
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