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"Long time
Techdirt readers may recall the iterative changes that Japanese
copyright laws have undergone over the course of the last several years. While
they aren’t the only changes to have occurred, the topline summary was to turn
copyright infringement from a predominantly civil law issue into a criminal
one, particularly in cases that prosecutors can identify as not falling under
the following provision in the Japanese constitution:
An act unavoidably performed to avert a present danger to the life, body,
liberty or property of oneself or any other person is not punishable only
when the harm produced by such act does not exceed the harm to be averted.
In other words, if you’re not avoiding more harm than you’re causing by
committing copyright infringement, you have the potential to face years in
prison if convicted, along with fines. All the more so, apparently, if you’re
infringing on the manga or anime industry’s content.
And now these changes to the laws are having the real world effect of putting
people in jail for the crime of the kind of copyright infringement that might
not even lead to a conviction here in America. One man was just sentenced to 2
years in prison for uploading and monetizing some YouTube videos that were
let’s plays and summaries of animes."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
