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Intellectual Property High Court rules Kurosawa still under copyright
1 August, 2008 (5 comments)The copyright saga about Kurosawa’s pre-1952 movies seems to have come to an end yesterday with a Japanese Intellectual Property High Court ruling that establishes the Tokyo District Court’s September More...
Toho sues Cosmo… yet again
2 May, 2008 (1 comment)Toho has reportedly sued Cosmo for $130,000, this time due to the company manufacturing three classic non-Kurosawa films that Toho holds the copyright for. Earlier this year, Toho hit Cosmo More...
Toho sues Cosmo over Kurosawa DVDs
20 March, 2008 (1 comment)According to Variety, Toho has thrown a $1.2 million lawsuit at Cosmo Coordinate that manufactured and sold budget versions of Kurosawa’s DVDs until the court ruling last year degreed that More...
Tokyo court decides Kurosawa still under copyright
17 September, 2007In April this year Toho launched a lawsuit against Cosmo Contents, which had been selling cheap DVDs of Akira Kurosawa’s early films in Japan under the assumption that they were More...
More information about the Toho lawsuit
4 April, 2007 (1 comment)deconstruct notes at the forum that Variety has slightly more information about the reported lawsuit Toho launched on Monday against Cosmo Contents at the Tokyo District Court regarding the company’s More...
Toho sues Cosmo Contents for selling DVDs of Kurosawa’s early works
2 April, 2007Ardent readers may remember an earlier post about pre-1953 Japanese films being in public domain at least in Japan. Thanks to a forum post by deconstruct (the forum is turning More...