Regional Developments by Making Intellectual Property Public Domain

Abstract

In this paper, the Japanese methods of regional developments with media contents are being analyzed. Taking Hokkaido or Sakaimitato as examples, the effects on the tourism with media contents will be explained in detail. Then, as a new idea, the concept of local consumed intellectual property will be proposed. Finally, the measures of solution of copyright which is difficult to deal with when using media contents would be discussed by including legislations.

Keywords:

• Intellectual property
• regional developments
• copyright
• tourism