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I'm going to edit an article of Wikipedia for midterm about "Aozora Bunko," which is Japanese digital library. They are making petition calling for no extension of the term of copyright. http://www.aozora.gr.jp/shomei/english.html

I'm going focus on people of Aozora Bunko's opinions toward that and the background of the extension.

Final for the wikipedia assignment
Problems

Aozora Bunko pointed that extension of the copyright term had been influenced from the document, “The U.S.-Japan Regulatory Reform and Competition Policy Initiative.”[5] Through these annually reports, The U.S. Government was requiring that the protected period of copyright should be extended to the Japanese government: 70 years after one’s death for an individual, and 95 years after for a corporation. In response, the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan has expressed that a conclusion is obtained at the Council for Cultural Affairs copyright subcommittee by the end of 2007. If the legal revision which extends a protected period will be actually carried out, Aozora Bunko would be forced not to publish books which have already and almost been published because of the 20 years extension of protection of copyright. Therefore, Aozora Bunko released the counter declaration against enforcement of revised law on January 1, 2005; they started to correct the signatures for the petition on January 1, 2007. Due to the regime change on 2009 in Japan, Japanese government stopped to receive this reports from the U.S. government. Aozora Bunko does not show any responses toward that and their petition calling for opposition against the extension of copyright term stopped from the modification of October 2008.[6] Instead of the document, the website of embassy of the United States inserted the “UNITED STATES-JAPAN ECONOMIC HARMONIZATION INITITAIVE” in February 2011.[7] In the document, The U.S. government still requires the extension of copyright law for protection of intellectual property rights toward Japanese government.