Toho sues Cosmo Contents for selling DVDs of Kurosawa’s early works
Ardent 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 into a Frankenstein’s...
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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...
View ArticleTokyo court decides Kurosawa still under copyright
In 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 out of copyright. Tokyo...
View ArticleToho sues Cosmo over Kurosawa DVDs
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 Toho still...
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Toho sues Cosmo… yet again
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 with a...
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Intellectual Property High Court rules Kurosawa still under copyright
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...
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Toho wins court case against Cosmo Coordinate (again?)
I’m not sure if I understand what is going on here, but Variety reports that Toho has won its lawsuit against Cosmo Coordinate, which tried to sell cheap editions of Kurosawa’s early movies in Japan,...
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Company that owns Kurosawa’s screenplays goes bankrupt
DesignEXchange Co, the Japanese company which purchased rights to Akira Kurosawa’s screenplays back in 2007, has apparently gone bankrupt and will be dissolved in May. This was reported in ITmedia and...
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