The Design of Institutional Arrangement for Neighboring Rights In the Digital Society

日本《著作权法》采用的不是责任规则，而是财产规则，表演者和唱片制作者的邻接权也以财产规则为基础。然而，由于数字技术和网络技术的迅速发展，对现有表演和唱片的使用需求迅速增加。因此，在演出和（或）制作唱片的奖励不减少的情况下，应在现行版权制度中引入责任规则或同等制度，以使二次使用更加顺利。

The Japanese Copyright Act has adopted not the liability rule but the property rule, and neighboring rights of performers and record producers are also based upon the property rule. Thanks to the rapid development of the digital and network technology, however, the demand for usage of existing performances and records has been rapidly increasing. Therefore to the extent that incentives for performing and/or producing records do not diminish, the liability rule or its equivalent scheme should be introduced into the current copyright system to make secondary use more smoothly.