Abstract
The Internet Age poses new legal questions to copyright law. With the Internet people are now able to have access to their personal computers in Tokyo from New York. As the printing technology required creation and development of copyright law, the Internet seems to require new development of copyright law. In 2011, the Supreme Court issued controversial decisions holding that certain file transferring services that enabled customers staying abroad to watch TV programs that were broadcast in Tokyo infringed the copyrights of the broadcasters. The Court relied on a doctrine called "Karaoke Doctrine" and some criticize that application of the doctrine is unforeseeable. The author proposes an alternative approach that is more faithful to conventional concepts of the copyright law, and, therefore, more predictable.
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