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[Copyright] Osaka District Court, Case No. 2025 (Wa) 3632
Read the Japanese version / 日本語版を読む [Copyright] Osaka District Court, Case No. 2025 (Wa) 3632 (Presiding Judge Matsuami) The plaintiff, a former professor at Tokushima University, alleged that the defendant's program was the plaintiff's copyrighted work or a jointly owned copyrighted work. ⇒ The very existence of the "plaintiff's program" was not established. The plaintiff lost. 1. It must be said that what was created in the first place is entirely unclear, and the existence
[Copyright] Tokyo District Court, Case No. 2023 (Wa) 70626
Read the Japanese version / 日本語版を読む [Copyright] Tokyo District Court, Case No. 2023 (Wa) 70626 (Presiding Judge Takahashi) 1. The text of articles prepared by Kyodo News (the plaintiff) and distributed to newspaper companies does not fall within "miscellaneous news and reporting of current events that are merely communications of facts" (Article 10(2) of the Copyright Act), and qualifies as copyrighted works. The plaintiff's distributed articles show an inverted-pyramid struc
A Recent Court Decision on the Copyrightability of Applied Art
Read the Japanese version / 日本語版を読む Regarding the copyrightability of applied art, the prevailing view had traditionally been that the threshold for creativity was set higher than for works of fine art. Recently, it had been reported that, in foreign countries such as Germany, the majority view does not distinguish between applied art and fine art, and this judgment can be evaluated as having moved closer to the practice in those countries. (Heisei 26 (Ne) No. 10063) http://w
