Krypton, a seller of Hatsune Miku claims to infringe intellectual property rights on blogs about Nikoniko Movie deletion riot, replacement of Noriko Sakai "Aiki Usagi"

About Susumu Sakai's "Aiko Usagi", speech synthesis · desktop music software released from Krypton · Future · media "Hatsune MikuRenaissance using "White medicatedAlthough Krypton issued a request to delete for the matter published in Nico Nico Douga, various troubles about that occurred one after another in the Obon festival in August 2009. About that, I announced that Krypton explained it again on the official blog and believes it infringes the intellectual property rights of Krypton and Yamaha.

About the history of the past from the following.
First, when the world was caught in a case related to Noriko Sakai, in a form to piggyback on the riot【Aoi Rabbit Puzzle】 White Kusuri 【Hatsune Miku】"Posted on August 9 at 2:01:10 am) will be released in Nico Nico Douga and it will be a hot topic.

【2ch】 New Speed ​​Quality: Sakai suspects that Hatsune Miku sings "White Kusuri" is very popular

On Nico Nico Douga this song recorded more than 100 thousand views on August 11, 2009, will be taken up also in the mass media mainly on television, Krypton, the developer of "Hatsune Miku" We decided to issue a deletion request to Nwango Co., Ltd., which manages the animation.

About deletion of movie in Nico Nico Douga - Peer pro developer blog

I will explain about this matter.

Move the lyrics that may hurt the honor of a specific individual that can easily be estimated by comparing the recent movie with mass media coverage etc. with the synthesized voice of our product "VOCALOID 2 Hatsune Miku" It included contents. The movie gathered great attention and topicality in a short period of time, such as recording the number of playbacks exceeding 100,000 times at that time on August 11, news articles including links to videos were distributed to several major Internet news sites It was. At the same time we received inquiries from media companies.

In response to these requests,

· Our products are used for illegal acts under the Civil Code and acts that constitute defamation crimes prescribed in the Penal Code and this has been made public on the Internet.
· The above fact was widely known to everyone, including those who delivered the above facts to several major Internet news sites, and who do not know our products.
· This means that the whole speech synthesis technology including our products and the image of the creative activities in general using it will spread through news reports differently from actual situation and generally recognized and established.

Considering the possibility of our business interest and credit being infringed by comprehensive circumstances such as our company, we made a petition for deletion of said video to Niwango Co., Ltd. on August 11 afternoon .

The circumstances leading to the deletion of this movie are as above.

A deletion request was issued on the afternoon of August 11, and as a result it was deleted, but what originally was Krypton authorized to delete and Nico Nico Douga should have been deleted? About the matter that it is a riot in various parts of the net. What inspired me was the boss who made "2channel", a blog of "Hiroyuki" which is deeply involved in Nico Nico Douga. It is updated as follows on August 12th.

The matter that Krypton is becoming a mummy: Hiroyuki @ Open SNS

In the case of JASRAC,
How about releasing things made by composers without permission on the net without permission?
So that's why I deleted MIDI on the net,
It is clear that what was the problem,
The song "White Rabbit" this time
What kind of rights of Mr. Krypton infringes?
I do not quite understand. . .

What Kipton does not like,
It is possible to delete anything under the name of "infringement of rights"
I feel that the quality is worse than JASRAC,
How is that? . .

Furthermore, August 17, Nico Nico Douga will revive the "【Aiki Rabbit Puzzle】 White Dragon [Hatsune Miku】" that should have been deleted.

About deletion request of video - Nico Nico news

Even if we consider that a third party "may be infringed on business profits and credit" with regard to the request to delete Nico Nico Douga, we should not delete if we do not have legal grounds I think.

Recently I received a message from Krypton Future Media, Inc. that the videos uploaded to NicoNico videos infringed on their rights, so I deleted the indicated video.


Today, as a result of our consideration again, as a result of our examination, we decided that there is no legal basis for the request for deletion from Krypton · Future Media Co., Ltd. regarding this video.

Therefore, we will restore the deleted video after this, but we will notify the user uploading the video that "warning has come to delete from the license source".


In view of this situation, I think that it would be a satisfactory solution to delete the video by the user himself / herself.

In this way, "【Auspicious Usagi Puzzle】 White Dragon [Hatsune Miku]" was released again, but the author withdrew its release, and the following views were announced today from Krypton.

About deletion of moving pictures including synthesized speech - Peer pro developer blog

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to you for your continued appreciation of our company and our products.

Our company was created by our company "VOCALOID 2 character · vocal · series 01 Hatsune Miku / HATSUNE MIKU" (hereinafter referred to as "this product") to Mr. Nyango Co., Ltd. on August 11, 2009 We filed a petition for deletion of moving pictures including synthesized speech and reported to that effect on our blog. I will explain again about this matter.

All copyrights, copyrights and neighboring rights and other intellectual property rights relating to this product belong to Yamaha Corporation and our company (hereinafter referred to as "our company"), and according to the related intellectual property law It is protected.
We use this product and this product under the terms of this End User License Agreement ("this Agreement") of this product subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement to you The act of infringing the moral rights of a third party by using this product is permitted to use the synthesized speech (Article 2, paragraphs 1 and 3), the act of Article 4, item 2 of this contract Because it falls under the prescribed prohibited matter, it is not included in the scope of the license of this agreement, therefore we believe that it infringes our intellectual property rights.

In this case, in this case, the defamation using this product in violation of this agreement was done, and there is a possibility that the image of speech synthesis technology in general including this product and the image of the whole creative activity using this product may decline As a result of comprehensive examination, we have decided to take measures to stop our infringement acts on our intellectual property rights. Therefore, we notified Mr. Nwango about the fact that the disclosure of synthesized speech contained in this movie violated this agreement, and made a petition for deletion of said movie.

In this response, there was a part insufficient for communication between Mr. Niwango and our company. I will talk with Mr. Ningo about this and inform you of mutual confirmation about future communication system.


Currently, VOCALOID products have received great patronage from many music creators, many new songs are born everyday, empathy for them is mainly propagated to more people via the web. Thanks to everyone's support, the VOCALOID products have passed beyond mere music software, and we have formed a creative scene with this as an intermediary.
I believe that it is necessary to recognize that speech synthesis technologies including VOCALOID products are beneficial for society in general so that this creative cycle does not go beyond temporary movement and continues to evolve further.
We have great expectations for the possibilities of speech synthesis technology and will continue to devote ourselves to developing the technology and improving our products and services so that our creative activities by VOCALOID products will be sustainable in the future We will strive to support in a form.

We look forward to your continued patronage of our products and for your continued understanding and cooperation in our activities.

August 29, 2009
Krypton · Future · Media Co., Ltd.

In short, it seems to be a "license agreement violation", but it is difficult to think that Sakai Hoko suspects sue with defamation. If you go with this argument, if you use a kitchen knife in a murder case, Is it possible to argue that "I have reduced"? Although it seems to be said that it is going to be said that, "Hatsune Miku" is software in the first place, in this case it seems to be in the form based on "End User License Agreement". However, if it goes with this argument, is not it the Nico Nico Douga that the deletion request should be made to the user who uploaded himself who should have "End User License Agreement" or the person who made the composition himself / herself? It should be said that the story is about, its surroundings are unknown.

Actually, the movies and songs that may lead to image degradation of Hatsune Miku are not limited to this case, but it is like a mountain, but this time is definitely different from other movies, It was pointed out that it was taken up by television and so on. If it was left as it was, the image of "Hatsune Miku" certainly dropped, it may have been irreparable.

By the way, on January 17, 2008 similar deletion of rights holder from krypton is done by "Deadball P" by Mr. Hatsune Miku for songs etc. made by violating the Terms of Service It is considered to be the same idea.

What is Deadball P (with Deadballp)?