| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study examined the efficiency of technological protection measures (TPMs) and digital rights management systems (DRMs) employed in Japan and worldwide in order to prevent mass copying of copyrighted works. It scrutinised recent case law, policy documents and academic literature in this field. In addition, online surveys were conducted in 4 major economies (i.e. Japan, U.S., Germany and China). The collected data show several similarities, as well as differences between consumers’ attitudes towards individual restrictions imposed by TPMs and DRMs on their use of copyrighted works. The differences could be explained by divergences between economic and cultural conditions in the studied countries. For instance, the respondents from countries with more developed online markets for copyrighted works tended to be more sensitive to restrictions affecting the uses of digital copies downloaded from the internet than to those applying to comparable uses of traditional tangible copies.
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