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Our music classes are purely educational. The issue of performance rights is irrelevant here.

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A public relations representative from Yamaha Music Foundation, referring to the decision by the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) to start collecting copyright fees from music school performances from January 2018. (Mainichi Shimbun)

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Nonsense.

Company Y hooks gullible parents with Sindey (pardon my dyslexia) megahits. But the latter is just like Las Vegas: the mouse always wins.

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The educational fair use exception clearly applies to all musical works, even Disney megahits. But even if you completely ignore fair use, playing a song in front of your music teacher (even if paid) is just not a public performance as envisaged by any of the international copyright agreements that Japanese law is intended to mirror. It's clearly in the private sphere. JASRAC has completely overstepped the mark here and I expect an embarrassing climbdown at some point. Not even Mickey Mouse can stretch the law this far.

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I fully expect that enough curiously fat envelopes will circulate so JASRAC will not only collect, they'll get criminal protection for their extortion business.

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