Public Views on Wrongfulness of Copyright Infringements

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About This Project

Japan Grant Number
JP18K01380 (JGN)
Funding Program
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Funding Organization
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Kakenhi Information

Project/Area Number
18K01380
Research Category
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type
  • Multi-year Fund
Review Section / Research Field
  • Basic Section 05070:New fields of law-related
Research Institution
  • Hokkaido University
Project Period (FY)
2018-04-01 〜 2023-03-31
Project Status
Completed
Budget Amount*help
4,550,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 3,500,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 1,050,000 Yen)

Research Abstract

The research results show that copyright laws are not only legal constructs, but their core rules have deep foundations in social norms recognized by the general public. Contrary to dominant views that the public completely disregards copyright law, this research found out sound and solid evidence that the public clearly deems it wrongful when someone commercially uses another person’s intellectual creation without getting any permission from the concerned person. Stealing of a bicycle is thus as wrongful as uploading of sound recordings on the internet or making of the copies of a movie DVD for their distribution amongst strangers. Nonetheless, the public also distinguishes between personal uses on the one side and commercial and other large-scale public uses of copyrighted works. This causes that copyright enforcement measures work quite efficiently when they are applied to commercial or large-scale copyright uses contrary to private non-commercial and personal ones.

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