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According to a report by Kyodo News Agency, the Japanese government is planning to incorporate Cosplay into copyright-related laws and apply it overseas.
Cosplay’s copyright disputes are just like Erchuang’s doujinshi, which has always been discussed in the scope of the reasonable use of copyright. The second creation of fans can indeed improve the visibility of the original, but if there is a relative profit-making behavior, it is also a clear violation. Copyright.
The Japanese government is currently embarking on legislation to determine whether Cosplay itself has commercial activities. If there is a commercial activity, it must obtain authorization from the original author, otherwise the role-playing behavior is an infringement. Commercial activities include open-for-profit online accounts, such as Youtube, Twitter, Instagram and other social networking sites.
Of course, if there is no-profit cosplay, it does not violate the copyright law.
The famous Japanese Coser えなこ (Enako) also expressed her views on Twitter. She said that nowadays, cosplays with their own roles are basically created in commercial situations. If they are playing copyright roles, they have basically been authorized. At the same time, she also posted a previous report about her meeting with Cool Japan’s Minister of Strategy Nobuharu Inoue, stating that the Japanese government is not trying to eliminate cosplay, but to obtain reasonable copyright.
By the way, I’ve told you several times …
In the case of commercial projects such as TV and events, I think about copyright protection this time, and basically I appear in original costumes instead of copyrighted cosplay.Whenever you cosplay a copyrighted item, we have permission from the publisher to wear it.
— Enako (@enako_cos) January 24, 2021
Kyodo News reported that this will serve as the backbone of the Japanese cultural export project “Cool Japan!”. Therefore, in the future, for Cosers outside of Japan, they should also pay attention to the follow-up development of this case. Incidentally, えなこ is also one of the officially appointed publicity ambassadors in the Cool Japan project.
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