Introduction
The recent and rapid development of internationalization and information technologies is making an increasing number of people concerned and interested in copyright issues, and an increasing number of books on the outline of the Copyright Law and copyright systems are being published by various publishers and organizations.
Such books are widely used by a number of experts and practitioners working on copyright businesses in general, however, one should pay attention to the fact that not only such experts but also many other people now need knowledge and information on copyright rules. Some of them say, for example, "I now need to learn just this point and aspect of the copyright rule rather than every corner of the copyright legislation and systems." Some others say, "I would like to know the relationship between copyright and my business." This means that new types of introductory and explanatory booklets are needed, which possibly take a different approach to copyright rules and knowledge from the pre-existing copyright books.
The Copyright Research & Information Center (CRIC) planned to publish a series of booklets on case studies with a view to responding to such needs. This booklet is the third Volume of such booklets published first in April 2000 and revised continually based on the revisions of the Copyright Law as well as the frequently asked questions of the readers. This new edition has been further revised, incorporating the contents of the major amendment of the Copyright Law in 2009, adding some relevant questions and explanations.
The booklets of this Case Study Series are continually published every year, so far up to Volume 3, taking up various issues and aspect of copyright systems, cooperating with relevant experts and the JCO (Japan Copyright Office) of the Government. We do hope that the present booklet will contribute to the further understanding of copyright systems in the libraries of this country.
CRIC (Copyright Research & Information Center)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Q1. | Is it permissible for all libraries to provide copying services without authorization of the author? |
| Q2. | Is it permissible to provide copying services by a copying machine for public use set up by the library? |
| Q3. | Is it permissible for a user of a library to make a full copy of a book for "private use" (under Article 30 of the Copyright Law), making use of a copying machine for public use set up by the library? |
| Q4. | What is the meaning of "a part of a work", which can be copied by the exception of copying service of the library? |
| Q5. | What is the meaning of "a periodical already published for a considerable period of time", all of an individual work in which can be copied by the exception of copying service of the library? |
| Q6. | Is it permissible for the library which does not have the book requested for copying by a user to ask another library to make (and send) a copy of the book? |
| Q7. | Is it permissible for a library to lend videotapes? Is there any difference between music CDs and videotapes? |
| Q8. | Is it permissible for a library to lend a book containing a CD-ROM or a Floppy Disc? |
| Q9. | Is it permissible for a city library to provide book reading services for children and book recording/lending services for disabled people such as the blind? |
| Q10. | How should a library cope with users who take pictures of book pages by digital camera and mobile phone? |
| Q11. | Does it require the authorization of author to reproduce cover pages of new books in "Library News" to introduce them and also to transmit it through the website? |
| Q12. | Is it permissible for a university library to transmit research outcomes of the professors by establishing an "Institutional Repository"? |
| Q13. | What is "legal deposit" of the National Parliamentary Library, and what was the amendment of the Copyright Law for the digital reproduction of the deposited works? |