Japan: Adopted Copyright Act amendment
Description
Adopted Copyright Act amendment
On 5 June 2020, the "Act to Revise Part of the Copyright Act and the Special Provisions on the Registration of Works of Computer Programming" is approved by the Japanese Diet. The Act defines "index sites" and "index apps" as the websites and apps t…
Scope
Policy Area
Content moderation
Policy Instrument
Content moderation regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: other
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
legislature
Government Body
parliament
Complete timeline of this policy change
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2020-03-10
under deliberation
2020-06-05
adopted
2020-06-12
in grace period