A system that automatically charges the royalty fee when copying publications with a copy machine appears

According to the Sankei Shimbun news report, it seems that we succeeded in the demonstration experiment of the system which automatically charges the royalty fee when Hitachi, Ltd. copies the publication.

Because we can distribute copyright royalty fairly by introducing this technology, it is said to be "a system that revolutionizes copyright management".

Details are as below.
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According to this article, Hitachi, Hitachi System Kyushu, Ricoh and Zenrin have succeeded in the demonstration experiment of a new system that can automatically charge the royalty fee when copying copyrighted materials such as newspapers and publications is.

In the system that succeeded in the demonstration experiment, when a copyrighted work equipped with a wireless IC tag capable of individual identification is copied by a copy machine equipped with an IC chip reading function, a fee is charged automatically to the copyright management center In particular, special watermarks are included in the copies, and they are charged not only for secondary copying but also unauthorized diversion.

In response to this, Zenrin 's managerial planning department manager said that it was "a system that revolutionizes copyright management."

By the way, although the copyright market of publications in 2006 is 3.4 trillion yen, which is much larger than 1,500 billion yen in the music copyright market, only copies of publications etc. are copied from users It seems that there is no means to grasp the means to grasp the fair copyright fee, and that it was impossible to distribute the charge of fair copyright fee, establish a consortium to promptly disseminate the new system, and invite other copier manufacturers and industry associations to participate .