Re: Public Domain Question

["Robert H. Rickner" <RRICKN1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I know U.S. government documents are in the public
>domain, but would anyone know if Japanese government
>documents are also in the public domain.

For what it's worth, wikipedia claims that Japan has no public domain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_copyright_law

However, this isn't stated specifically on

http://www.cric.or.jp/cric_e/csj/csj.html

It does say that Moral rights persist after the death of the author and past
the 50 year economic copyright term.  Afterall, public domain is a very
western concept.

Rob

PS, Hello, First time writer, long time watcher.  I'm a 3L who's keen on
copyright.