Date of
Judgment: May 30, 1986
Issuing
Authority: Supreme Court
Level of
the Issuing Authority: Final Instance
Type of
Procedure: Judicial
(Civil)
Subject
Matter: Copyright and Related
Rights (Neighboring Rights)
Summary
of the judgment (decision):
1. A claim for compensation
on the basis of copyrights that are economic rights, and a claim for
compensation on the basis of moral rights of author, which are made on the
grounds that a single act infrin ged on copyrights that are economic rights and
on moral rights of author for the same work, are separate claims with different
subject matters.
2. An author's reputation or
honor, as stipulated in Article 36 -2 of the former Copyright Act (Act No. 39
of 1899), refers to the objective evaluation which an author receives from
society for the author's value as a person such as his or her character, virtue,
honor, and fame, and does not include the feeling of honor.
(This
translation is provisional and subject to revision.)