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1. Recent copyright activism in
Japan
Tomoaki Watanabe
- Associate Prof./ Sen. Research Fellow, GLOCOM, International U. of Japan
- Executive Director, Creative Commons Japan
- Founding Member, Open Knowledge Foundation Japan Group
Dec 1-2, 2012, NZ Digital Rights Camp, Auckland U. Law School, Auckland
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2. My affiliations, etc.
GLOCOM: Research institute specialized in social side of ICTs; a part of
private non-profit university (7 full-time, 100+ fellows worldwide)
CC Japan: Copyright license NPO; strong in arts& culture (70+
volunteers)
OKF Japan Group: A group for the promotion of open data in Japan.
(20+ volunteers)
Also: a not-so-active Wikipedian
My day job: GLOCOM - academic
Pass time: volunteer at all others
* Copyright advocacy/ activism is not the primary mission of any of
those entities.
* All the views and opinions are mine, not these organizations’.
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3. Participants from Japan
Masayuki Hatta:
- a hacker (Debian, Free Software Foundation, Slashdot Japan)
- academic (economics, business, hacktivism, privacy)
- MIAU (board member)
- GLOCOM (visiting res. fellow), OKFJG (member)
- on about.me/hatta
Keisuke Katsuki:
- MIAU Director of Operations
- Internet policy issues (privacy, electioneering, content-filtering, etc.)
- knows about lobbying
- on Twitter, Facebook, via email
Reirui Ri:
- Copyright lead, Google Japan
- Management consulting background
- Key Focus Areas: Fair use, Intermediary liability, related rights for publishers and performers
- on Twitter, Facebook, via email
Tomoaki Watanabe
- academic (ICT policies, information society issues) at GLOCOM, a research institute of a universeity
- license-related work at CC Japan
- founding member of Open Knowledge Foundation Japan Group
- on LinkedIn, Facebook, via email
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4. Overview of Activities
1. Copyright Term Extension (ThinkC/ Think TPP
IP)
2. Fair Use (CCJP, MIAU)
3. Criminalization of unauthorized downloading
(MIAU)
4. Anti-ACTA activism (MIAU, some CCJP)
5. Open Data (GLOCOM, OKFJG)
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5. Copyright Term Extension
Basic Issue: Life +50 years -> Life +70 years
Round 1: 2006-2009
“Think Copyright” Forum intervened effectively.
(http://thinkcopyright.org/ )
Context: Government committee discussing the
copyright amendment
Strategy: Hold open discussions outside the
committee, with key figures (ThinkC). CCJP helped
ThinkC& testified before the committee.
Result: Decision was postponed. (opponent won)
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6. Copyright Term Extension
Round 2: 2011-
Basic Issue:TPP brings term extension, statutory
damages, and others.
Context: Secret international negotiation
Strategy: ThinkC, MIAU, CCJP, and others held
online video symposiums.
Founded http://thinktppip.jp/?lang=en
Result: (not yet clear)
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7. Fair Use
Basic Issue: Introduce general limitation to copyright to
foster innovation (National Intellectual Property
Headquarters, 2009)
Context: Government Committee discussing copyright
amendment
Strategy: CCJP: online survey; public symposiums; public
comment; expert testimony
Result: no fair use; three narrowly defined copyright
limitations introduced (2012).
“General” limitation turned out to be very difficult to
gain support. Amendment needs “specific” problems.
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8. Unauthorized Downloading
Round one: Criminalization, 2008-10
Basic Issue: Some rights holders wanted to
criminalize unauthorized downloading; it had
been okay b/c as long as it is for “private use”.
Context: Gov’t committee discussion
Strategy: MIAU was formed to address this
threat.
Result: limited in scope (video and audio); no
penalty. (partial win for opponent)
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9. Unauthorized Downloading
Round two: Introduction of Penalties, 2011-12
Context: (not an ordinary routed to copyright
amendment)
- Lobbying to diet members using a celebrity;
- Last-minute amendment to the bill in the Diet;
- Backdoor negotiation among political parties involving
multiple policy agendas
Strategy: Counter-lobbying to politicians
- public symposiums (online and off) to raise public
awareness
Result: proponents won
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10. Unauthorized Downloading
Round three?: 2012-
Context: Right holders pursuing expansion?
- Publishers seeking to gain a neighboring right,
by introducing a bill
- Other potential moves
Strategy: MIAU, CCJP held public symposiums
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11. ACTA
Basic Issue: Illegalization of access control circumvention;
other provisions were not new to Japanese law
Context: Secret negotiation, not open to public input
Strategy: Contacted government agencies (MIAU);
Attended informal NGO-negotiator meeting in Tokyo
Round (CCJP, others);
Translated leaked draft agreement
Results: Not effective; Thanks to global uproar, digital
chapter became weakened enough by JP standard.
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12. An interesting evolution of Japanese
popular activism
Anti-nuclear power: mistrust to gov’t&
mainstream media; trust to the Internet
Anti-ACTA: opposing restrictions on Internet’s
free flow of information (a bit misguided, not
effective)
Anti-TPP: IP-awareness led to concerns on
TPP’s IP chapter; esp. critical of seed-patent
(anti-Monsanto)
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13. Open Data
Basic Issue: To release data sets held by the
government under an open license for reuse.
Context: Government committees and agencies
discussing strategies, policies, guidelines, etc.
Strategy: Help government through informal and
formal channels (CCJP, GLOCOM, OKFJG or their
members as individuals); Hosted hack-a-thons
and other networking& awareness-raising events
(GLOCOM; OKFJG)
Result: National Open Data Strategy set July, 2012.
(our contributions were somewhat influential)
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14. General Tips/ Lessons
Building a case
- Collect examples showing your cause
(why fair use is needed; how wonderful the effect of the open data could be; etc.)
- If you can quantify damages/ benefits, do.
- Come up with a good copy (phrase)
Different players
- Politics : public attention and buzz counts; not highly literate about the Internet
- Bureaucracy : reasoning and expertise counts
- Non-expert activism: not familiar to us yet. (MIAU is ahead of others)
Current Challenges
- Non-expert activists not well-connected to the decision-makers
- Swift action, but not necessarily well-informed
- Conspiracy theories having greater influence among them
- Younger generations may not be interested in policy/ activism?
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17. License for this Work
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Author’s name: Tomoaki Watanabe
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