Research of the Regulation between Personal values in the Information Network Society and the Role of Tort Law

近年来信息网络的进步极大地改善了我们的生活。然而，与此同时，它不可避免地产生了相关人员之间的利益冲突和价值观冲突。例如，在隐私权、个人尊严和个人的自由创造活动或思想、观念和知识产权的生产过程中，可以看到这些冲突。通过民法来调解这种冲突是社会上最紧迫和最重要的问题之一。在此背景下，侵权法必须被视为调整和规范上述价值秩序的主要角色之一。本研究与日本科学促进会（JSPS）的科学研究补助金(A)一起进行了为期三年的研究，试图通过澄清日本侵权法的原则和提出一些民法解释的方法来解决这些问题。研究小组根据问题的价值分为两类。一组研究的主要议题是考虑侵权法的内容和功能，第二组研究的主要议题是阐明侵权法在社会中的作用和运作方式。在研究的共同思路的基础上，每个参与者根据自己的兴趣编写研究论文。所处理的问题不同于信息网络本身产生的问题，而不同于使用信息网络所产生的问题。它们包括隐私、宣传、电子医疗、互联网拍卖和知识产权。该研究报告的部分内容已于2006年3月刊登在商业期刊《民商法学刊》第133卷第4=5期和133卷第6期。

The progress of the information network in recent years has improved our life dramatically. However, at the same time, it inevitably produces collisions among the interests and values of people concerned. These collisions are, for example, seen among the rights of privacy, dignity of the individuals and the individuals' free creative activities or producing process of thoughts, ideas and intellectual property. To reconcile such collisions through civil law is one of the most urgent and important issue in society. In this context, tort law must be seen as one of the major role to adjust and regulate the order of values mentioned above.The research conducted with the grant-in Aid for Scientific Research (A) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) for three years and tried to resolve these problems through clarify the principle of the Japanese tort law and suggest some ways of interpretation of civil law. The research group was divided into two categories according to the values of problems. To consider the contents and the function expected to tort law was the main topic of the one group, and to clarify the role and the manner that tort law work in the society was the main topic of the second group.Based on the common idea of the research, each participants prepared research paper according to their own interest. Treated subjects are different from the questions produced by the information network itself to problems that generated from using information network. They includes privacy, publicity, e-health, internet-auction and intellectual property. Some part of the research report was published in commercial periodicals Min-Shoho Zassi, the Civil and Commercial Law Journal, vol. 133, No.4=5 and vol.133 No.6 in March 2006.