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    How legal is self-catering in books? ? Current and future business models and their problems Is it possible to sell second-hand e-books | Business + IT

    To what extent is it legal to cook for yourself in a book? Current and future business models and their problems

    Is it possible to sell second-hand e-books?

    The so-called "self-catering" and e-books, where you scan books by yourself and convert them into data, are a very hot area where new business models are expected to appear one after another in the future. However, these are also areas where various problems are lurking under copyright law. I will give an overview of whether business models that are currently in existence or that may appear in the future are legal under copyright law, and how to think about their legality. Once we understand the framework of thinking, we should be able to think about the legality and legal issues of other new business models.

    Attorney Toru Kawase

    Attorney Toru Kawase

    Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Law and Politics. Since 2002, she has worked as an IT-related freelancer, contributing to SB Creative's magazines, writing full-length books, and developing various web services. After passing the bar exam, he joined Cosmopolitan Law Firm (Otowa, Tokyo) as a lawyer, specializing in IT and business. As a corporate lawyer for several IT companies, he is also involved in various corporate legal affairs, including support for start-up companies, intellectual property rights management, and fundraising. Personal site: http://tokikawase.info/Twitter: http://twitter.com/tokikawase

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    Business models such as "self-catering", in which books are scanned by oneself and converted into data, and "self-cooking services", which are related to e-books, already exist today, and their legality is a problem. In the future, new business models are sure to emerge one after another, such as the recently talked about second-hand sales of e-books, the provision of rental spaces where self-cooking equipment is installed, and the sale of self-cooking equipment. Not only for companies currently involved in "self-catering" and e-books / planning to be involved, but also for businessmen of companies that may be involved in some way in the future, and for those who may use them as users, Let's examine the basic structure of copyright law and the framework for judging the legality of specific business models.

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