(Nikkei BP Group)
(No.1 High-Tech News Site in Japanese)
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September 1, 1998 (TOKYO) -- Music Copyright Agency, a company that handles
music copyrights, will likely obtain approval from the Agency for Cultural
Affairs of the Education Ministry to launch a music copyrights brokering
business.
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Such a move would effectively pave the way to put an end to the approximate
60-year monopoly of the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers
and Publishers (JASRAC).
The company has said it will likely be sanctioned by the agency as a
body to supplement the operations performed by JASRAC, by the end of
the year. MCA filed the application with the agency in April.
An agency official said: "MCA is still at the stage of submitting additional
documents needed for further examination, and it remains unclear whether
MCA will be given the go-ahead on the new business because of the need
to check on the documents."
An official at the company said: "The agency has begun considering a
move to change the current situation that JASRAC exclusively handles
music copyrights produced in the country. So, we could get a go-ahead
for the business within this year."
MCA's business will cover music copyrights pertaining to CD-ROMs, DVDs
and the Internet. This will help musicians manage their copyrights on
a different media basis, such as on the Internet, and thereby facilitate
the distribution of digital content on the Internet and other media.
(Nikkei Multimedia)
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