Culture spread beyond time and space. It is revitalized and is transformed throngh the encounter with other culture. Culture is being conscious when other culture emerges.At the same time, it raises sense of orpperty which excludes others, to protect the culture or to gain profit out of it. Thus, culture have two opposite aspects: owning and spreading. The most radical problem occurred by the two opposite aspects emerges in intellectual properties right, especially copyright. Responding the requests from big companies of cultural industry of inside and outside Japan, Government of Japan(GOJ) ins putting pro-copyright policies forward, imitating USA. Many categories of subculture like manga and anime are recognized as the typical intellectual properties of Japan; GOJ made policies to utilize their soft-power in the world market. The manga and anime market in the world, however, is not produced by the efforts of GOJ and cultural industry of Japan after the mid 90s. We cannot deny the facts that the world diffusion of manga and anime is achieved by illegal activities like pirated copies and individual enthusiasm of oversea supporters. Surveying "traditional culture," which in regarded as important Japanese soft-power, most of them existed before the establishment of copyright. That means, pro-copyright is clearly not the only way for producing culture which could be handed down to posterity. What kind of stance is required about "Owning and Spreading Culture" to realize a society which produce rich culture? We are aiming to find a way opposite to pro-copyright. This team research project will not side with neither incentive nor human reghts copyright theory and will not place a special emphasis on information control model and operation of law. Instead of them, we quest the principle of producing rich culture, studying cultural transformation and creation through open exchange of information among people, and looking the dynamism at the field where "Owning and Spreading Culture" causes conflicts. At the end of this project, we aim to reshape "academic knowledge" into "enlightenment knowledge" concerning this topic.

Research Representative	山田奨治	国際日本文化研究センター・准教授
Organizer	細川周平	国際日本文化研究センター・教授
Team Researcher	井上　真	東京大学大学院農学生命科学研究科・教授
〃	瓜生吉則	立命館大学産業社会学部・非常勤講師
〃	奥田晴樹	金沢大学人間社会研究域・教授
〃	加藤雅信	上智大学法学研究科・教授
〃	白石さや	東京大学大学院教育学研究科・教授
〃	菅　豊	東京大学東洋文化研究所・教授
〃	杉藤重信	椙山女学園大学人間関係学部・教授
〃	富田倫生	青空文庫・ライター
〃	細川修一	江戸川大学・非常勤講師
〃	増田　聡	大阪市立大学大学院文学研究科・准教授
〃	本橋哲也	東京経済大学コミュニケーション学部・教授
〃	山中千恵	仁愛大学人間学部・講師
〃	岩渕功一	早稲田大学国際教養学部・教授
〃	佐野 真由子	静岡文化芸術大学文化政策学部・准教授
〃	稲賀繁美	国際日本文化研究センター・教授
〃	鈴木貞美	国際日本文化研究センター・教授