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Hen Zemi's Tagro Addresses Illegally Streamed Videos
posted on by Egan Loo
TAGRO first noted that he was encouraged that a recognized creator such as raised her voice on the issue on Sunday. TAGRO then talked about a young woman who said she put an illegal video of Hen Zemi on her blog for all to see. When he warned her about it, she responded, "I understand the feelings of annoyance that creators get when their material is watched for free. I get annoyed when an anime BD I just bought is posted on the net!" TAGRO expressed his incredulity at her response.
Japan's Copyright Law prohibits unauthorized ers but had expressly ed an amendment that would make it illegal to knowingly copyrighted material without authorization for the first time. The new law went into effect on January 1, 2010.
However, the Internet Watch website reported that the Japanese government's YouTube and similar video websites is not considered a prohibited "," even under the legal definition of the term in the amended law. (Posting an unauthorized video online, on the other hand, was and remains prohibited.)
After the agency's pronouncements, the Gigazine website noted that YouTube s technically do , if temporarily, a video file when they "stream." On the other hand, the Japanese copyright laws already had an exception to permit temporary file copies in browser and video player caches.
[Via Temple Knights]
