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Overview (Draft)
JASRAC is responsible for the copyright rights of songwriters, lyricists, and producers. Their main responsibilities include looking over streaming, distribution and recording rights, creating licenses, collecting money and distributing that money to respectful rights holders. Furthermore, this company looks out for copyright infringement, and deals with such copyright infringers. Because JASRAC are an organization, they are also under the general corporate organization structure law, and are responsible for non-profit management.

The headquarters is located in Shibuya, Tokyo, in the building owned by the Koga Masao Music Cultural Memorial Foundation, and has twenty-two branches in major cities of Japan. JASRAC was established in 1939 with the predecessor Great Japan Music Association, and is the oldest copyright management company in Japan in existence.

Prague Whirlwind (Draft)
In 1988 Japan joined the Berne Convention where the Copyright law was enforced. However, there was no concept on how to pay royalties for recorded media for each live performance. In 1931, Wilhelm Prague, a formerly a German professor, established a copyright management organization called “Prague Institution” in Tokyo, and argued that it acquired the agency right in japan from a European copyright management organization and began requesting music usage fees to all businesses using music, such as broadcasting stations and orchestras.

People were outraged about the usage fee at the time, and the method made the use of songs outside of Japan virtually difficult. Japan Broadcasters Association also failed to broadcast overseas music for over a year due to poor contract negotiations with Prague Organization. Prague also began to urge Japanese artists to act on behalf of copyright management. This series was called the “Prague Whirlwind” and triggered concentration management of copyright in Japan.