Managing Intellectual Property

Japan’s anti-monopoly watchdog raids collecting society

28 April 2008

Peter Ollier, Hong Kong

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has searched the offices of the country’s largest music licensing society on suspicion that the organization is abusing a dominant position in the market

Satoshi Watanabe, manager of the international relations department at the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (Jasrac), confirmed that the JFTC is investigating claims that Jasrac is effectively preventing the entry of other organizations into the market by signing blanket licensing agreements with TV channels and radio...



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