According to IT Media [J], Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs(ACA, Bunka-chou) reportedly expressed at a symposium that they had given up their original public copyright license CLIP, which they researched from 2007 to 2010, and changed to support existing licenses, especially Creative Commons Licenses(CC). Although that some criticizes ACA spent tax for such a project… Continue reading Japanese Government Give Up Original Copyright License, To Support Creative Commons
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2-channel Bans 5 Major Summary Sites From Reusing Its Posts
Some 2-channel(2ch.net) users noticed early morning on June 3 that an unpopular notification page on 2-channel was updated with the warning message against 5 notorious 2-channel watcher blogs. We ban the following URL from using copyrighted materials owned by 2ch, as it is detrimental that those people who damage to third parties and do not… Continue reading 2-channel Bans 5 Major Summary Sites From Reusing Its Posts
Many Hatsune Miku Videos Being Removed From YouTube By Invalid Copyright Report
Popular human voice synthesizer Vocaloid Hatsune Miku are getting known oversea as a Japanese web phenomenon. Like the global company Google picked it up as a “singer” for Chrome promotion in Japan, where they chose Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga for US. As the Chrome video shows, there are massive number of generated songs and… Continue reading Many Hatsune Miku Videos Being Removed From YouTube By Invalid Copyright Report
Copyright Mark May Mean “Miss” For Japanese Teens
You know what copyright mark © means, don’t you? It should be common for all cultures that young generation try to differentiate themselves by changing their languages from adult. In this case with Japanese teenager girls, they have been using © for totally different purpose since mid 1990’s. Here is an image from monthly teens’… Continue reading Copyright Mark May Mean “Miss” For Japanese Teens
Magazine-Digitize Agent Service Corseka Ends Its Short Life
Corseka [J] by Enigmo Inc., blitzed into Japanese digital magazine publishing system by a service “to buy and scan your buying paper magazine for you” named Corseka in October 2009, who immediately got bashed by traditional publishers who had never consulted beforehand and was forced to withdraw most of magazines in days, announced to close… Continue reading Magazine-Digitize Agent Service Corseka Ends Its Short Life
iTunes Selling Bootleg Of Japanese Techno Star Makes Labels Worried
GAME by Perfume According to ITMedia [J], Internet Watch [J], Asahi [J] and more coming, 11 songs of Perfume‘s album “Game” are found to be sold on iTunes store, which turned out to be unauthorized copy by unknown fake company. Perfume is a popular Japanese girls techno unit broke through as a star from the… Continue reading iTunes Selling Bootleg Of Japanese Techno Star Makes Labels Worried
Japanese Classics For Kindle
Amazon has recently announced their Global Wireless Kindle. However, as English only books are sold from Amazon.com, most Japanese couldn’t find the product very appealing. Takayama Kyosuke just released a web based tool which translates books from Aozora Project (Japanese equivalent to Gutenberg Project) to Kindle supported PDF format. To get your favorite Japanese classic… Continue reading Japanese Classics For Kindle
Japan’s No. 2 Mobile Social Gaming GREE Sues No. 1 DeNA (Mobage-town) Over Fishing Game
Bad blood in Japan’s mobile social gaming scene: The country’s second biggest company in that area, GREE [JP, Asiajin articles], has filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court today, suing the No. 1 player and main competitor DeNA (Asiajin articles) for copyright infringement (both of these companies are listed and are large-cap by the… Continue reading Japan’s No. 2 Mobile Social Gaming GREE Sues No. 1 DeNA (Mobage-town) Over Fishing Game
Japanese national TV network expands to Youtube
Japanese copyright holders in the music, TV and movie industry are known to be very protective of their contents when it comes to distribution on the web. Youtube has been “cleaned” several times in the past after complaints filed by media companies from this country. Now, for the 1st time for a major TV network,… Continue reading Japanese national TV network expands to Youtube