Japan copyright law amendment

Japan adopted a similar approach, and ensured its legislative environment was fully supporting its AI ambitions.
That meant allowing researchers and private companies to carry out machine learning activities through an update to its copyright rules.
Japan’s copyright laws have permitted machine learning techniques since 2009.

As the European Parliament prepares to review and vote once more on its own copyright rules on 12 September, it is worth taking a look at how Japanese lawmakers rightfully connected machine learning technologies with the development of AI, and successfully managed to balance their copyright rules to support their technological ambitions.

The 2018 Amendment introduced the following three provisions, removing perceived copyright barriers to AI:

In May this year, Japan’s National Diet approved a legislation for updating its “Copyright Act” , a reform that focused on allowing much-needed flexibility and legal certainty for innovators.