Commons:Deletion requests/Copyright term extension in 2018 in Japan

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Works published in 1968 should have gone to public domain in this year (2019), but they will go to public domain in 2039 according to amendments of Copyright Law that was effective on 30 December 2018. [1]

Darklanlan (talk) 11:26, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment So far, every source I read mentions that Japan increased the copyright term from Life + 50 to Life + 70 nonretroactively. It doesn't mention if stamps got their protection extended from 50 to 70 years for example. Abzeronow (talk) 16:18, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Japan Post Company answered in 2009 that they held copyright of stamps. (Commons:井戸端/過去ログ6#日本切手の画像アップについて（郵政事業会社からの回答）) There is no exception in law that stamps are not protected by copyright. According to Article 53 of Copyright Law, "The copyright to a work whose authorship is attributed to a corporation or other organization subsists for a period of seventy years after the work is made public (or for a period of seventy years after the creation of the work, if the work is not made public within seventy years of its creation)." Stamps published in 1967 have gone to public domain on 1 Jan 2018, but stamps published in 1968 got their protection extended from 50 to 70 years on 30 December 2018. Darklanlan (talk) 20:47, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, OK. I can't read Japanese but I guess it's reasonable that term got extended from 50 years to 70 years to the benefit of only corporations. At least this was not retroactive. Abzeronow (talk) 15:45, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. The amendment of law doesn't restore copyrights that have already expired. (ref. Supplementary Provision Art. 7, Act No. 108 of 2016, no translation) Darklanlan (talk) 12:24, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I listed File:Jump19680801.jpg (the same subject with File:Shōnen Jump first issue.jpg). Darklanlan (talk) 05:19, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment I deleted these files except stamps as not in the public domain works. Because the "Ryukyu Yubin" stamp was issued in Okinawa under the US rule, I do not know whether Japanese copyright law is valid. In the United States, stamps issued before 1978 are public domain works as government works. See Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United States#Stamps. This requires more accurate judgment.--Y.haruo (talk) 12:22, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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