Articles on Copyright

【Copyright Act ★】 A case in which the Court found that, with respect to a photographic work whose subject is a pair of penguins, each one of the penguin pictures in the work can be considered to be independently copyrightable, and affirmed that acts of reproducing and transmitting publicly the respective pictures of the two penguins separately constitute infringements of copyrights of the respective penguin pictures.

The Copyright Act revised in 2018 will further improve the machine learning environment in Japan.

Copyrightability of Applied Arts in TRIPP TRAPP Appeal Case