Exploring possibilities to take balance between securing freedom in use of copyrighted works and allocating profits to copyright holders

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25780082
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: New fields of law
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: MURAI Maiko 筑波大学, 図書館情報メディア系, 准教授 (80375518)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 著作権法 / 知的財産法 / フェア・ユース / 著作権の制限 / 私的録音録画補償金制度 / 著作権の間接侵害

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study explores possibilities to take balance between securing freedom in use of copyrighted works on the one hand and allocating profits to copyright holders on the other. In the midst of the information age, it is imperative to delineating the free zone where users can enjoy copyrighted works without the consent of the copyright holders from the perspective of private users' liberties, freedom of expression and public interests including research and education. In doing so, however, incentive to creation should not be excessively diminished. Arguably it would be better to install indirect profit-returning mechanism without directly prohibiting use of copyrighted works, such as levy systems on private sound and visual recordings or service providers.

Free Research Field

知的財産法