Copyright Act of Japan
A link to the website of Japanese Law Translation Database System (Ministry of Justice, Japan)

CLR (Consortium for Learning Resources） (Japanese text only)
CLR was established to develop learning resources in May, 2014. 9 universities (Kyushu Univ., Hokkaido Univ., Tohoku Univ., Tsukuba Univ., Chiba Univ., Tokyo Univ., Nagoya Univ., Kyoto Univ., Keio Univ.) join. Prof. Motofumi Yoshida is a member of the committee.

"Use of Copyrighted Works and Copyright in University Learning Resources” (PDF857KB) (Japanese text only)
CLR (Consortium for Learning Resources) that Kyushu university joined made this guideline.

STM Permission Guidelines
The STM Permissions Guidelines are for STM member companies in over 50 countries to re-use of limited amounts of material from published works.

Points to make educational materials (Japanese text only)
A link to the website of JMPA(Japan Medical Publishers Association) Please check the article “Citation and Reproduction”

Copyright laws and school activities (Japanese text only)
A link to the website of Agency For Cultural Affairs

Flowchart of using copyrighted materials in schools and other educational institutions (Japanese text only)
A link to the website of Japan Book Publishers Association

What Is "Copyright" ?
A link to the website of CRIC(Copyright Research and Infomation Center )

Cultural council copyright subcommittee legal and basic problem subcommittee (4th)　(held on 31st, Aug. 2015)
A link to the website of Agency For Cultural Affairs. See the document 2 "Cases can be considered to have been illegally used in educational institutions (provided by the rights' organizations)"

The result of "The needs for facilitating the use of copyrighted material" inquired by Agency for Cultural Affairs 　(Japanese text only)
Agency for Cultural Affairs held an open public hearing to hear "the needs for facilitating the use of copyrighted material" (July 7-27, 2015), and Kyushu Univ. Library and ICER submitted our needs.
No.29(p.52) Kyushu Univ. Library and ICER / No.30(p.53)KYushu Univ. Library

Opinion of the federal judge about copyright issues in the electronic reserve of the United States Georgia State University（May 16th, 2012）
A link to the website of Current Awareness Portal managed by National Diet Library
　>>Orininal reasons for judgement(PDF 350pages)
　>>Review "Some Leeway, Some Limits" (May 14th, 2012）

The United States Georgia State University Prevails (Again) in Key Copyright Case(Apr. 5th, 2016)
A link to the website of Current Awareness Portal managed by National Diet Library

［Video］Using copyrighted materials for digital resources and its issues in higher education (Japanese language only)
This is the video lecture by Prof. Motofumi Yoshida in the 14th Consecutive Lectures "Current Library Science" held by Kyushu University Library on Jan.23, 2013.

［Video］"Copyright Seminar -Copyright on Education-" (Japanese language only)
This is the video lecture by Prof. Shiro Ozaki(The Open Univeristy of Japan) at Ito campus, Kyushu University on June 6, 2014.