JPHiP Forum
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Guchi_Jnr on March 15, 2007, 05:10:50 AM
-
A Liberal Democratic Party panel will submit a bill to the current Diet session to ban the taping of films by audience members in movie theaters, according to its members.
The panel, headed by Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akira Amari, said Tuesday the proposed legislation is to help protect the film industry and intellectual property rights.
Current copyright law does not prohibit a person from bringing a digital video camera into a movie theater and taping the film as long as the copy is for personal use only.
Some of the copies, however, are sold as DVDs or put on the Internet. According to one account, the movie industry loses 20 billion yen a year from pirated copies.
If that's the case, I can't believe there's not a lot more stuff floating around.
-
well, the japanese movie industry is WEAK by my standards. anime movies and movies based off mangas make more money than original movies. this is a good step to prevent piracy.
Even the korean market is coming along fine and ahead of japan's
-
Movie theatres as in cinemas ?! You mean i could just bring in 1 DV Cam and just record the movie that is playing?
How would they know whether it's for personal viewing later or for sharing? Japan has all these funny laws.
-
^yeah, movie cinemas..
Kinda wish I knew that was legal earlier...Would make paying 1800yen to watch a movie a little more worthwhile. well, the japanese movie industry is WEAK by my standards. anime movies and movies based off mangas make more money than original movies. this is a good step to prevent piracy.
Even the korean market is coming along fine and ahead of japan's
Thank you ever so much for that wonderful and insightful contribution to the topic...
Oh wait...no it wasn't. :P
-
:lol: wth it was legal? Seriously, where are all the damn bootleg japanese movies? -___-
-
Oh wait...no it wasn't. :P
ur welcome :pimp: