They really are going a bit nuts, considering most viewers are situated in places in the world that have no access to this material through other means. They are not losing money over that. Perhaps the Japanese internet service providers could be worked with to make some changes on their end.
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Larson</b> <<a href="mailto:peter_larson2000@yahoo.com">peter_larson2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It will certainly be sad if they succeed. We get our Japanese TV fix largely through YouTube these days. Much better than the incredibly cost prohibitive (and uninteresting) NHK based cable channel available here.<br><br>
----- Original Message ----<br>From: "<a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu">amnornes@umich.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu">amnornes@umich.edu</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">
KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a><br>Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 7:56:44 PM<br>Subject: YouTube and JASRAC<br><br>Mark Schilling has been reporting in Variety about how The Japan<br>Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers has been giving
<br>YouTube a hard time. There's the complaint I noted a while back, which<br>resulted in the pulling of 30,000 videos. Seems that didn't stop the<br>pirates. Surprise suprise. So they sent this nasty letter. I guess
<br>YouTube agreed to put a notice in Japanese on their page. Guess what?<br>JASRAC wasn't satisfied. It's curious how excited they are. Or is this<br>simply something to help justify the existence of the various tanto.
<br><br>Complaint letter follows.<br><br>Markus<br><br><br><br><br>December 4, 2006<br><br>Mr. Chad Hurley, CEO<br>Mr. Steve Chen, CTO<br>YouTube, Inc.<br>1000 Cherry Avenue<br>Second Floor<br>San Bruno, CA 94066<br>USA<br>
<br><br>Dear Sirs:<br><br>We are right holders in Japanese audio-visual works and are<br>associations of right holders as such. A large amount of audio-visual<br>works are uploaded without right holders' permission on your
<br>YouTube.com website, resulting in copyright infringement. To deal with<br>this situation, we have been taking the "Notice and Takedown"<br>procedures based on the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which<br>imposes much time and effort on us. However, as a large number of
<br>audio-visual works are illegally uploaded despite our notices, we are<br>seriously concerned about the current situation where the Notice and<br>Takedown scheme, aimed to prevent copyright infringements, is not<br>functioning well due to the large volume of illegal uploads.
<br><br>Taking into account the current status of your service, we believe that<br>your company should not just wait for right owners to take the "Notice<br>and Takedown" procedures but should bear the responsibility to prevent,
<br>in advance, copyright infringements such as illegal uploads and<br>distributions, or to avoid those infringements. We hereby request you<br>to implement an infringement-preventive system, which eliminates<br>copyright infringement by employing various technologies of today and
<br>the efforts of the website operator, and which identifies and indicates<br>uploaded works from legitimate right holders.<br><br>While we expect you to promptly take adequate and necessary measures to<br>prevent copyright infringement on the YouTube website, until you do so,
<br>we request you to take provisional measures, including but not limited<br>to those listed below, in order to prevent illegal uploads of<br>audio-visual works, which copyrights are neither owned by the persons<br>posting the works on the website themselves nor licensed by right
<br>owners:<br><br>1. Indicate on the top page of the YouTube website, in Japanese, that<br>"Posting or uploading audio-visual works, which copyrights are neither<br>owned by yourselves nor licensed by right owners, is illegal, and such
<br>act may impose you civil and/or criminal liability."<br>*If necessary, we will provide the Japanese text.<br>2. Register the names and addresses of those users making uploads and<br>to keep such records.<br>3. Terminate the user accounts of those who illegally uploaded
<br>audio-visual works deleted on and after June 2006 upon our requests and<br>to not allow them to make further uploads.<br><br>We kindly request you respond to this letter no later than December 15, 2006.<br><br>Please send your reply to : Network Section, Transmission Rights
<br>Department, JASRAC, 3-6-12 Uehara, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 151-8540 Japan.<br>We appreciate your cooperation in this matter.<br><br><br>Sincerely yours,<br><br>Junichi Shinsaka<br>Secretary General<br>Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Inc.
<br><br>Nobuyoshi Sakai<br>Deputy General Manager<br>General Administration<br>Japan Video Software Association<br><br>Shiro Aono<br>Chairman<br>Copyright Committee<br>The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA)<br><br>Takeshi Inagaki
<br>Secretary General<br>Association of All Japan TV Program Production Companies (ATP)<br><br>Ryohei Ishii<br>Director<br>Copyright & Contracts Division<br>Rights & Archives Center<br>Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)
<br><br>Jun Takeuchi<br>Director<br>Digital, Broadcast Promotion Division<br>The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan<br><br>Hikaru Sasao<br>General Manager<br>Rights & Contracts Management<br>Compliance & Standards Division
<br>Nippon Television Network Corporation<br><br>Ryuichi Fukao<br>Director<br>Legal & Business Affairs<br>Broadcast Content & Rights Management Center<br>Headquarters Programming and Production<br>Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc
<br><br>Shinya Chiba<br>Senior Director<br>Copyrights Intellectual Properties Center<br>Fuji Television Network, Inc.<br><br>Hideo Takahashi<br>Contract & Copyright Department<br>(Deputy General Manager, Programming & Entertainment Division)
<br>TV Asahi Corporation<br><br>Tomoyuki Ikeda<br>Manager<br>Copyright Department<br>Programming Division<br>TV Tokyo Corporation<br><br>Yasuyoshi Yamashita<br>Manager<br>Righs Business Department<br>Television Kanagawa, Inc.
<br><br>Yoshio Yamamoto<br>Bureau Chief<br>Special Events & Digital Media Bureau<br>Asahi Broadcasting Corporation<br><br>Kenichi Kameda<br>General Manager<br>Broadcast Standards, Rights & Contracts<br>Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
<br><br>Tadashi Nagae<br>General Manager<br>Copyright Management Department<br>Tokai Television Broadcasting Co.Ltd.<br><br>Masashi Kondo<br>Copyright Division Director<br>Japan Satellite Broadcasting Association<br><br>Masashi Kondo
<br>General Manager<br>Multiwindow Contents & Copyrights Department<br>Space Shower Networks inc.<br><br>Yoshinori Itou<br>Section Chief<br>Broadcast Planning and programming Division<br>Department of Broadcasting<br>
The University of the Air Foundation<br><br>Fuminori Nakagawa<br>Acting Manager<br>Strategy Legal Affairs Dept.<br>Association of Copyright for Computer Software(ACCS)<br><br>Hideki Matsutake<br>Director<br>Executive Committee
<br>Center for Performances' Rights Administration(CPRA)<br><br>Kenji Takasugi<br>Secretary General<br>Director & General Manager<br>Legal Department<br>Recording Industry Association of Japan(RIAJ)<br><br>Naoya Bessho
<br>Chief Compliance Officer & VP<br>Legal Department<br>Yahoo! JAPAN Corporation<br><br>Satoshi Watanabe<br>Manager<br>Transmission Rights Department<br>Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers(JASRAC)
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