TL;DR Am 9. Oktober entschied das Bezirksgericht Tokio, dass das Posten eines Screenshots eines Beitrags in X ohne Erlaubnis eine Urheberrechtsverletzung darstellt und verurteilte die Person, die den Screenshot gepostet hat, zur Zahlung von 400.000 Yen.
Der vorsitzende Richter Masaki Sugiura entschied, dass das Kontobild und der Beitrag „die Individualität und den kreativen Ausdruck von Gedanken und Gefühlen des Autors widerspiegeln“ und somit als urheberrechtlich geschützte Werke gelten. Er entschied, dass das Posten eines Screenshots ohne Zustimmung eine Urheberrechtsverletzung darstellt.
https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/441567?rct=national
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I predict Fair Use will highlight the next chapter of legal debates.
A tweet is haiku
brief, shaped breath of thought and self;
law now guards the verse.
This is crazy
This is crazy
Can’t tell if The Onion or Japan
After condemning 3 YouTubers for making movie summaries, this tracks. Japan is crazy for copyright and hasn’t heard of fair use. Heck, they’d probably think Ryan George is guilty of copyright infringement.
Seriously….out of touch….
Is a fax machine also an unauthorised reproduction device then…? Someone better fax the judge to offer some „contemporary“ technology advice…… Oh, wait…you can’t….
I’m surprised people are mad about this. This makes sense entirely. Even in the US they’d likely win because „fair use“ is very strict and almost never actually applies. A screenshot is just copyright violation. In the US we could argue it’s „fair use“ if it was heavily annotated with a large percentage of the image obscured but that’s not even what happened here. This is no different than posting an unedited video.
Holy shit. So does a retweet without explicit approval count as copyright infringement? This is a weird ruling.
With this logic a retweet without consent would also be unauthorized reproduction.