- 著者
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原 秀成
- 出版者
- 日本出版学会
- 雑誌
- 出版研究 (ISSN:03853659)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.27, pp.3-59, 1997-03-20 (Released:2020-03-31)
- 参考文献数
- 54
- 被引用文献数
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3
This article deals with the legislation on copyright and on the press in Japan from a historical viewpoint. The following findings are described: (1) Under the influence of the British Copyright Act of 1842, the Japanese Press Ordinance of 1869 and that of 1875 were made law. (2) The later Japanese Press Ordinance of 1887 was modeled on the German Press Act of 1874, and limited the freedom of the press in the Constitution of the Empire of Japan of 1889. At the same time in 1887, three ordinances on copyright were modeled mainly after the German Act of an Author's Rights of 1870, and enabled the Japanese government to join the Berne Convention of 1886. (3) These Japanese ordinances inherited the common practice of publishers' guilds from the eighteenth century, and tended to work as a means of the monopoly of publishing houses, rather than to protect the rights of an author. (4) This legal system caused the governmental censorship and the control of the press until the end of World War II.