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Japanese Government Published Checklist and Guidance Related to AI and Copyrights

Aug 26 2024

On 31 July 2024, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (the Agency) published “Checklist and Guidance related to AI and Copyrights” (the Checklist), suggesting some ideas to resolve unsettled issues related to “Do inputs to AI infringe copyrights?” (see our previous blog “Japanese Government Identified Issues Related to AI and Copyrights”) for AI developers as described below:

Japanese Government Identified Issues Related to AI and Copyrights

Sep 25 2023

By Aiko Yamada and Yuki Sako

Aiming to address creators’ concerns and to minimize risks of copyright infringement by artificial intelligence (AI) developers and users, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan convened panels at the Legal System Subcommittee of the Copyright Committee on 26 July 2023 and 5 September 2023 to identify issues to resolve in relation with generative AI and copyrights as roughly noted below:

Jul 06 2023

By Yuki Sako and Aiko Yamada

Following the call for international standards on Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the recent G7 summit, on 2 June 2023, in a rare move, Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PPC) issued two warnings in a publicly released letter (the “Letter”):

Firstly to the three categories of users of generative AI services, i.e.,
- business operators who collect personal information and thus are subject to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information of Japan (APPI);
- government agencies, which may adopt generative AI services into their operations; and
- the general public; and
Secondly to the “ChatGPT” developers/publishers.

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