Japan: Copyright Law revision eyed to foster search-engine business

From Newspaper

[David_M]

I had wondered why Google didn't have data centers in Japan.

[asahi.com...]

"The current restrictions force the Japanese arms of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, which dominate the global search-engine market, to locate their Japanese servers in the United States, where the information use banned in Japan is not illegal." THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

[edited by: David_M at 2:53 am (utc) on Jan. 9, 2007]

[bill]

Excellent find David!
It doesn't sound like the Japanese government's SE project would get very far without revision of that law. As that was a highly publicized project I'll bet we'll see a change in Japanese copyright laws for SEs very soon.