Chapter 10: Cultural creative industries from a cultural policy perspective: the case of Japan
Emiko Kakiuchi
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Published:
30 Mar 2018
Page Range:
98–104
Collection:
Law 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786431172.00019
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Harmonizing economic development and the creation of a rich culture, many measures, such as the Cool Japan Strategy, have been taken in Japan to promote creative industries. However, despite these efforts, creative industries, except software and computer services, are not growing as expected in terms of sales, value added, and the number of employees, even though the total for all industries is increasing. Notably it has become increasingly difficult to draw a line between creative and non-creative industries with highly advanced technology fully protected by intellectual property rights, which makes the definition of creative industries obscure.

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Cover Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries
Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries
Edited by
Abbe E.L. Brown
and
Charlotte Waelde
Handbook
Published:
30 Mar 2018
Print ISBN:
9781786431165
eISBN:
9781786431172
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786431172
Pages:
c 424
Collection:
Law 2018
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