2006年12月 5日
Mr. Chad Hurley, CEO Mr. Steve Chen, CTO YouTube, Inc. 1000 Cherry Avenue Second Floor San Bruno, CA 94066 USA |
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We are right holders in Japanese audio-visual works and are
associations of right holders as such. A large amount of audio-visual
works are uploaded without right holders' permission on your YouTube.com
website, resulting in copyright infringement. To deal with this
situation, we have been taking the "Notice and Takedown" procedures
based on the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which imposes much
time and effort on us. However, as a large number of audio-visual works
are illegally uploaded despite our notices, we are seriously concerned
about the current situation where the Notice and Takedown scheme, aimed
to prevent copyright infringements, is not functioning well due to the
large volume of illegal uploads. Taking into account the current status of your service, we believe that your company should not just wait for right owners to take the "Notice and Takedown" procedures but should bear the responsibility to prevent, in advance, copyright infringements such as illegal uploads and distributions, or to avoid those infringements. We hereby request you to implement an infringement-preventive system, which eliminates copyright infringement by employing various technologies of today and the efforts of the website operator, and which identifies and indicates uploaded works from legitimate right holders. While we expect you to promptly take adequate and necessary measures to prevent copyright infringement on the YouTube website, until you do so, we request you to take provisional measures, including but not limited to those listed below, in order to prevent illegal uploads of audio-visual works, which copyrights are neither owned by the persons posting the works on the website themselves nor licensed by right owners:
We kindly request you respond to this letter no later than December 15, 2006. Please send your reply to : Network Section, Transmission Rights Department, JASRAC, 3-6-12 Uehara, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 151-8540 Japan. We appreciate your cooperation in this matter.Sincerely yours, Junichi Shinsaka Secretary General Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Inc. Nobuyoshi Sakai Deputy General Manager General Administration Japan Video Software Association Shiro Aono Chairman Copyright Committee The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) Takeshi Inagaki Secretary General Association of All Japan TV Program Production Companies (ATP) Ryohei Ishii Director Copyright & Contracts Division Rights & Archives Center Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Jun Takeuchi Director Digital, Broadcast Promotion Division The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan Hikaru Sasao General Manager Rights & Contracts Management Compliance & Standards Division Nippon Television Network Corporation Ryuichi Fukao Director Legal & Business Affairs Broadcast Content & Rights Management Center Headquarters Programming and Production Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc Shinya Chiba Senior Director Copyrights Intellectual Properties Center Fuji Television Network, Inc. Hideo Takahashi Contract & Copyright Department (Deputy General Manager, Programming & Entertainment Division) TV Asahi Corporation Tomoyuki Ikeda Manager Copyright Department Programming Division TV Tokyo Corporation Yasuyoshi Yamashita Manager Righs Business Department Television Kanagawa, Inc. Yoshio Yamamoto Bureau Chief Special Events & Digital Media Bureau Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Kenichi Kameda General Manager Broadcast Standards, Rights & Contracts Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation Tadashi Nagae General Manager Copyright Management Department Tokai Television Broadcasting Co.Ltd. Masashi Kondo Copyright Division Director Japan Satellite Broadcasting Association Masashi Kondo General Manager Multiwindow Contents & Copyrights Department Space Shower Networks inc. Yoshinori Itou Section Chief Broadcast Planning and programming Division Department of Broadcasting The University of the Air Foundation Fuminori Nakagawa Acting Manager Strategy Legal Affairs Dept. Association of Copyright for Computer Software(ACCS) Hideki Matsutake Director Executive Committee Center for Performances' Rights Administration(CPRA) Kenji Takasugi Secretary General Director & General Manager Legal Department Recording Industry Association of Japan(RIAJ) Naoya Bessho Chief Compliance Officer & VP Legal Department Yahoo! JAPAN Corporation Satoshi Watanabe Manager Transmission Rights Department Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers(JASRAC) |