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
Summary
of the judgment (decision):
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 infringed on copyrights that are economic rights and on moral
rights of author for the same work, are separate claims with different subject
matters.
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.)