Arts & Culture     Business     Environment     Government     Health     Human Rights     Military     Philosophy     Science     U.S. Asian Policy			Home > East Asia >  Copyright law to be discussed AFAR 12/16/2002  Related Articles • Acts Upon a Stage (Part 4) • Acts Upon a Stage (Part 3) • Taiwan's Culture of Food • China's Climate Change Strategy • Tempting Tempeh • Hong Kong's Biggest Rights Violation Since 1997 • The EU's Approach toward Relations with Tokyo and Beijing • The Anti-Seditious Speech Debate and Media Law Reform • The View from Tokyo: Melting Ice and Building Bridges • The Japanese Identity   In an attempt to further protect intellectual property, Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs hopes to extend the copyright protection period for movies to 70 years, up from the current 50-year period. This would bring the protection period for movies closer to that stipulated for other materials by the existing Copyright Law, which protects novels, paintings, and some other non-movie materials for 50 years after the creators’ passing. The Agency, a branch of the Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology Ministry, is expected to present a bill to revise the Copyright Law to the Diet session in January.
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