Kaneda Copyright Agency {top}

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Copyright FAQ {top}

{FAQ} What kind of activity is prohibited by copyright?

Copyrights are composed of various “branch rights” (copyrights are sometimes called “a bundle of rights”), so the copyright owner has the exclusive right to use a work according to the branch rights. As a result, doing the following activities without authorization (permission) constitutes copyright infringement;
▷ Reproducing a work.
▷ Publicly giving a stage performance or musical performance of a work.
▷ Publicly presenting a work via an on-screen presentation.
▷ Transmitting a work to the public.
▷ Publicly communicating, through a receiver, a work transmitted to the public.
▷ Publicly Reciting a literary work.
▷ Publicly exhibiting the original work (this refers to an artistic work or an unpublished photographic work).
▷ Distributing copies of a cinematographic work.
▷ Making a work (except a cinematographic work) available to the public through the transfer of the original work or a copy of the work.
▷ Creating a derivative work*[1].

*[1] The author of the original work underlying a derivative work has the same rights as the author of the derivative work has regarding the exploitation of the derivative work.