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The Recording Industry Association of Japan said the five agreed to pay a total of $21,600 to five record companies, the Asahi Shimbun reported Thursday. Eight record companies asked 13 Internet service providers to disclose information on 44 individuals who they claimed had been illegally distributing music. So far, information on nine individuals has been disclosed, five of whom responded to complaints against them.
In the U.S., broadcasters and advertisers have long been worried about the effects of TiVo and other digital recorders on ad-watching. That anxiety is spreading to Japan, where broadcasters are now saying that skipping commercials is actually a violation of that country's Copyright Law . To combat the ungrateful public's growing ad-skipping, the country's National Association of Commercial Broadcasters has designated Aug. 28, the anniversary of the first ad played on Japanese TV, as "TV Commercial Day." They'll aim to highlight the benefits of TV advertising to viewers.
Japanese musicians under contract with Sony and other labels that haven't joined Apple's iTunes Music Store are starting to defy their recording companies and trying to get their music on the popular download service launched last week in Japan.At least one artist has already gone against his label to offer his songs on iTunes. And a major agency that manages Japanese musicians said Wednesday it was interested in a possible deal with Apple Computer Inc., regardless of the recording companies' positions
The industry has asked the Japanese government to charge a royalty, to be added to the retail price of portable digital music players like Apple's iPod, which has been explosively popular here. Money earned from the fee, likely to be 2 percent to 5 percent of the retail price, would go to recording companies, songwriters and artists as compensation for lost revenue from home copying. But in Japan, the proposed fee has also touched off an unusual public battle over the influence that industry groups here still wield over the government and economy, the second-largest after the United States. As a powerful political lobby, Japan's recording industry expected to get its way when it first asked for the fee last fall. Instead, its proposal remains stalled in one of Japan's normally rubber-stamp government committees. Meanwhile, the media mock the fee as the "iPod tax."
QuoteThe industry has asked the Japanese government to charge a royalty, to be added to the retail price of portable digital music players like Apple's iPod, which has been explosively popular here. Money earned from the fee, likely to be 2 percent to 5 percent of the retail price, would go to recording companies, songwriters and artists as compensation for lost revenue from home copying.
The industry has asked the Japanese government to charge a royalty, to be added to the retail price of portable digital music players like Apple's iPod, which has been explosively popular here. Money earned from the fee, likely to be 2 percent to 5 percent of the retail price, would go to recording companies, songwriters and artists as compensation for lost revenue from home copying.
