[Copyright] Osaka District Court, Case No. 2025 (Wa) 3632
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Topics: Copyrightability / Creators and inventors / Proof of infringement
Published on this website: 2026-09-29
[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 of the "plaintiff's program" as a copyrighted work cannot be recognized.
2. As to the paper in Exhibit Ko 1, it "merely describes the purpose of the 'plaintiff's program,' the formulas used in it, application examples, etc."; "leaving aside the program's purpose and design concept, it is also unclear how the plaintiff specifically participated in the design and implementation of the program itself."
(Quotations are translations.)
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