Japan: Introduced Copyright Act amendment

The "Act to Revise Part of the Copyright Act and the Special Provisions on the Registration of Works of Computer Programming" is introduced in the Japanese Diet. The Act defines "index sites" and "index apps" as the websites and apps that guide the public or are mainly used by the public to infringe copyrighted works. The Act esablishes that providing a link to infringing content by using an index site or app is considered a violation of copyright which can be punished.