Youtube agreed

Wow, this Swedish company makes very cool films and ads. Kakkoii! And this notcot has really good sense. Every choice is cool. I wish I could make such a cool site but I would be talkative more than I guessed. :-0

I wrote JASRAC strongly urged YouTube to show warnings on the site. YouTube CEO Chad Hurley came to Japan, and YouTube agreed to display warnings on its Web site in Japanese. I don't know how it will be. Maybe only users who log in as Japanese will see it.

Of course I know lyricists and composers entrust their music copyrights to the JASRAC. JASRAC works to protect the musical copyright or copyright holders. But! Their way makes us hate the JASRAC. Last year end we had this news: "The 73-year-old owner of a bar arrested over piano performances." This site Joi Ito had this post and many people were surprised to read it. Well, you go to the jazz bar with your girlfriend and ask a piano man to play "Fly Me To The Moon" because your GF is a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Then the bar owner has to go to jail. Do you think this is normal? Well, we can't help him, because actually we have such a law and JASRAC didn't do wrong. But still this case is open to question. JASRAC checks every bar in Japan? If this case was a lesson to others, why did JASRAC choose such an old man's old bar in a local city? Bully?

There is more to it. The bar promised to boadcast to JASRAC to show what it is playing every night. Then the court allowed the bar to play classics or non-copyright music. However, the JASRAC appealed against this sentence. Then finally the court ruled to prohibit the playing of music and called for removal of the piano because there is a possibility the bar will break the law again. This is the decision (since it's a Japanese pdf, I am not sure you can open it). The bar is Desafinado in Wakayama pref. They say they are playing classic and non-copyright music, so maybe they still have a piano now. They are carrying out a signature collection campaign in a bid to change the copyright law.

If you enjoy Japanese anime and TV show on YouTube, they will be gone. JASRAC controls everything.

Comments

[Dan]

"because actually we have such a law and JASRAC didn't do wrong."

...LAWS aren't always "right" though.

[Mari]

Hi there
I am afraid all movie what I want to save will be gone soon. So I tried to save file before it.

[Misha]

Poor man! :( .. and what should he do? buy the songs rights? o_O

(it seems the Desafinado link doesn`t work..?)

[Ude]

In Finland we have Teosto "protecting" copyrighted music. A few years ago they said taxi companies should pay royalties for drivers playing music or even the radio in the background to their customers! Amazingly enough, the court backed this claim and now taxi companies have to pay a small fee per car per year (or alternatively don't play music at all).

[stuz]

JASRAC, MPAA, RIAA, etc .. all the same. There is a total "communist like" organisation in Denmark called Copydan/Coda.. (I wouldnt be surprised if the boards of those organisations were lead and controlled by old geezers with angst of the evolution of technology) they have enforced a duty on ALL devices that can store, or play anything which can offend copyrighted material.. mem sticks, mobile phones, tv, cd/dvd's, harddrive, monitors, radios.. what's next? Paper? I'm so with you! I'm sure other people will soon follow/are already in your footsteps. Even when musicians (or the artist) who has the intelectual ownership argue against and protest against so harsh laws (and enforcements) the organisation and courts STILL continue on.. I really wonder who's pockets those fees end up in?