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Japan’s IP programme plans rules to compensate creators and protect voices from AI

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Source: Nippon.com (Jiji Press)Also reported by Jiji Press via Adnkronos

Japan’s Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters adopted its intellectual property promotion programme with plans to draw up rules protecting intellectual property as generative AI spreads, promote ways to compensate rights holders, consider amending the Unfair Competition Prevention Law against AI imitation of actors’ and voice performers’ voices, and study civil remedies for infringement.

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Japanese voice actors and rights holders could gain legal protection against AI imitation, after years of a permissive copyright regime for AI training.

When
12 Jun 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0213
Where
Japan
Who
Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters; Sanae Takaichi

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Nippon.com (Jiji Press) and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2026-0213: “Japan’s IP programme plans rules to compensate creators and protect voices from AI.” wheresthe.ai, 12 Jun 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/jp-ip-programme-generative-ai-rights-2026-06/ (source: Nippon.com (Jiji Press)).

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