Right to Make Transmittable
right granted under Japanese copyright law
The Right to Make Transmittable is one of several rights granted to the creators of creative works by Japanese copyright law. The law defines copyright not as a single comprehensive right but as a bundle of various rights including right of reproduction, right of performance, right of screen presentation and right of public transmission.
Overview
The right to make transmittable is the right to make works transmittable by some technical measures including uploading the works such as cinematographic works including TV programs and films on the internet. The right was newly established by the amendment to the Copyright Act of Japan in 1997.
Article 23, Paragraph 1 of the Copyright Act of Japan provides that the author shall have the exclusive right to effect a public transmission of their work (including, in the case of automatic public transmission, making their work transmittable). The provision makes it clear that the right to make transmittable as well as the right of public transmission, the right to transmit by wireless communications or wire-telecommunications that had already been protected before the amendment, shall be exclusively attributed to the author. To make transmittable is to record or input information on public server which is connected to the network provided for use by the public or to connect such public server that stores such information to the internet. This right is commonly called the right to upload but in fact, it is broader concept than simply to upload.
Attribution of the right to make transmittable
As mentioned above, authors shall have the exclusive right to publicly transmit their work. Under Article 17 of the Copyright Act of Japan, copyright shall be attributed to authors upon the creation of works.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Right to Make Transmittable” as right granted under Japanese copyright law. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as right granted under Japanese copyright law. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7333670. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997.
Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.
- Event chronology
- Institutional context
- Locating named record creators
Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Right to Make Transmittable”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Right to Make Transmittable primary sources, Right to Make Transmittable archive and Right research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Right to Make Transmittable”?
- Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
- Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Right to Make Transmittable” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.