[Fwd: use of Japanese photograph - mssg id: 419B102C.8701.3E27B5@localhost]

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

From: E Roel...

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Subject: use of Japanese photograph - mssg id:
419B102C.8701.3E27B5@localhost
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:18:59 -0500
From: e roel <e.roel@xxxxxxx>
To: <digital-copyright-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

re:   Japanese copyright & reproduction of photograph

Per below, it is useful to note that a work that may even be in the
Public Domain abroad (ie, outside of the United States) may be protected
by US copyright law.  WTO and TRIPs Agreements may very well be
relevant, as well as the 1952 Universal Copyright Convention.  From the
UNESCO URL
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.phpURL_ID=3D15412&URL_DO=3DDO_TOP=IC&URL_SECTION=3D201.html

a couple of pertinent references to Japanese copyright law (I would
point you to provisions of Article 86 mentioned in the second URL
below):

Culture > Collection of National Copyright Laws > Asia and the Pacific > 
Japan

The copyright law applicable in Japan was lastly amended by the law June
19, 2002.

Link to the law : http://www.cric.or.jp/cric_e/clj/clj.html

Japanese website on copyright : http://www.cric.or.jp/cric_e/

Best of Luck,
E Roel