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[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
