BOOKSCAN Establishes Industry Organization to Establish and Promote Rules for Collection of Electronic Collections

ByRichard Masoner / Cyclelicious

Service to make books e-book (PDF) "BOOKSCANIn order to create an environment where users can digitize collections with confidence, Book Scan Co., Ltd., which provides "Nihon Library Collection Electronic Industry Association(Tentative name) "to establish the establishment of the establishment.

Nihon Library Collection Electronic Industry Association
http://www.jabda.or.jp/


Converting a book at hand to digitized data such as PDF is called "self-catering". In order to possess a large amount of books in their form, it is necessary to have a large space and a huge bookshelf, but if you prepare a PDF file, you can save as much as you can save as much storage as you like People had been from before, but since around 2010 they cook their own meals using a cutting machine and a scanner,"Nondestructive self-catering" conducted without cutting or cutting the book pageAnd so on became widely known.

In this trend, collection book digitization service (self-catering agency service) is born that you send books from people and convert them electronically. However, copyright holders point out that if many users use self-catering agency, copyright law will fall under "copyright infringement". In September 2011, 122 writers and 7 publishers notified the self-catering agency if they did not approve the scanning of their work. On top of that, a lawsuit was filed against the two companies that seemed to be even more vicious, and eventually both of them stopped the service.

Report of litigation to book scanner
(PDF file)http://www.shueisha.co.jp/info/release111220.pdf

Each defendant is engaged in business to receive orders from unspecified number of users, scan unspecified number of books, create electronic files, and deliver them to users.
Doing such behavior without the permission of the copyright owner of the book is a copyright infringement under Article 21 of the Copyright Law.
In September of this year, the plaintiffs and others sent a questionnaire to the scanning company clearly notifying that they would not allow the creation of electronic files by scanning their own books of books, but each defendant , "We will continue to scan and create electronic files if plaintiffs' work is subsequently ordered" in the future.
Therefore, the defendant companies will invite their injunction based on Article 112 (1) of the copyright law because there is a possibility that the defendant companies will infringe the copyright of plaintiffs in the future.
(Also, the so-called "self-catering" that the user himself scans the book for personal purposes is recognized as "private reproduction" under the copyright law (Article 30, paragraph 1 of the copyright law) Projects that scan for users' orders (even on a large scale) are not subject to private reproduction at all and infringement of reproduction rights.)

Some cases have arisen that traders who sell data without receiving books have been arrested while giving "self-catering agency".

Reproduction data sales of manga "Gintama", arrested self-catering agency: News: NET & Digital: YOMIURI ONLINE (Yomiuri Shimbun)

It is a substitute agent for so-called "self-catering" who reads books from customers with a scanner and converts them into electronic books, but it seems that they sold the electronic data they had without receiving comics from customers.

Based on these circumstances, it is urgent to develop an environment for providing electronicization services for collections that is secure and reliable for users and that does not impair the interests of authors and publishers, and book scans It was established the preparation meeting for establishment of "Japan Association of Electronic Industry Association (JABDA)".

JABDA aims to formulate industry rules on digitization of collections, promote and promote users, and awareness campaign for users, and was established in March 2013My book conversion councilAs well as discussions with authors · publishers · academic experts, while contributing to society / culture through computerization of collections such as electronicization, and rules for making returns to authors · publishers · We are working on creating the environment.