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Title: Japanese Authorities Refer 'Spoiler Website' Operators To Prosecutors
in Rare Corporate Copyright Case

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/28/111250/ja...

Japanese police referred five individuals and a company to prosecutors last
week for allegedly operating a website that published detailed movie plots
without permission from rights holders. The Miyagi Prefectural Police
Headquarters and Minamisanriku Police Station sent the case to the Sendai
District Public Prosecutors Office on suspicion of violating the Copyright
Act. The Content Overseas Distribution Association described the case as
having "very few precedents for a corporation being referred to the
prosecutor's office on suspicion of violating the Copyright Act, making this
an extremely rare case." The website posted detailed content from films
including "Godzilla Minus One" and four others copyrighted by Toho, "Shin
Kamen Rider" and two others by Toei, "Neck" and one other by KADOKAWA, and
"Shin Ultraman" by Tsuburaya Productions. The site listed more than 8,000
films with complete storylines, character names, dialogue, and scene
descriptions.

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