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Article 2(1), Item 1, of the Japanese Copyright Act (hereinafter, the “Act”)1 provides a definition of “copyrighted works” as follows: “‘Work’ means a production in which thoughts or sentiments are expressed in a creative way and which falls within the literary, scientific, artistic or musical domain”.2 The first half of the definition relates to the notions of the “idea/expression” dichotomy and “creativity”, and the second half relates to the argument of “applied art”.
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Kojima, R. (2012). Japan. In: Hilty, R., Nérisson, S. (eds) Balancing Copyright - A Survey of National Approaches. MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29596-6_22
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