Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers

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Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers
(JASRAC)
JASRAC logo
purpose Collecting society
Chair: Haku Ide
Establishment date: November 1939
Seat : Shibuya , Tokyo
Website: www.jasrac.or.jp

The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers ( Japanese 社 団 法人 日本 音 楽 著作 権 協会 , Shadanhōjin Nihon Ongaku Chosakuken Kyōkai ), JASRAC for short, is a non-profit organization for the protection of the rights of Japanese authors, musicians and publishers, comparable to the German GEMA . JASRAC was founded in November 1939 after Japan acceded to the Bern Convention for the Protection of Copyright in 1899 . Today it is the largest organization of its kind in Japan .

information

  • JASRAC's CEO is Mamoru Kato.
  • The seat is in Shibuya / Tokyo .
  • JASRAC also has branches in all major cities in Japan.
  • The company has 503 employees and currently (April 2007) represents more than 13,000 clients.
  • More than 7 million works are under the protection of JASRAC.
  • Since 1982 the JASRAC Awards have been given to national and international artists who are particularly successful in Japan.

YouTube

In December 2006, JASRAC caused a worldwide sensation when it asked the popular American video platform YouTube to remove more than 30,000 copyrighted works by Japanese artists on behalf of 24 major Japanese entertainment companies. She also called for stronger measures to prevent copyright infringement, including a proposal to put warning notices on the platform in Japanese.

In February 2007, representatives from YouTube, JASRAC and the 24 companies that had lodged a complaint held an initial meeting in Tokyo . The proposed measures and their implementation were discussed. Immediately thereafter, the warning notices in Japanese when uploading a video were introduced.

At a second meeting in August 2007, the changes made were presented to those responsible at JASRAC. It was also mentioned that an automatic filtering system for copyrighted material was being developed, as required by JASRAC. The basis for this is that it is too much effort for the rights holder to manually lodge a complaint against all the videos concerned. Nevertheless, YouTube was asked to make the system against copyright infringement more efficient and to take an example from existing Japanese video portals.

Legal basis

The law of collecting societies was considerably liberalized in 2000. Until then, official approval was required for the commercial exercise of the copyrights of other people. According to the new law, only one registration is now required.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.jasrac.or.jp/ejhp/about/profile.html
  2. ↑ http://www.jasrac.or.jp/ejhp/release/2006/1205.html
  3. ↑ http://www.jasrac.or.jp/ejhp/release/2007/0206.html
  4. ↑ http://www.jasrac.or.jp/ejhp/release/2007/0803.html
  5. ↑ Chosakukenn Kanrijigyōhō , Law No. 13/2000

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