With the goal of becoming the center for content-related information, the department carries out research on content industries and legal environments in Japan and overseas. The major projects in 2006 included the following.
Industry Trend Research
-Content market (size of content market, digital content market and video material secondary market, etc.)
-Changes in industrial structure (structural changes in production segment, etc.)
-Overseas content markets (basic data on markets in U.S., Europe, ASEAN and others, penetration of Japanese content in overseas markets, etc.)
Digital Content White Paper
We publish this document every year to convey the results of our various research projects. It covers basic information relating to content including government policies, topics and situation for content overseas. The graph below is from Digital Content White Paper 2007.
Legal Environment Research
-Legal environment trends (worldwide trends in legal foundation for convergence of telecommunications and broadcasting, examples of integrated services, court rulings on integrated service disputes, etc.)
-Intellectual property rights concerning digital content (structure of animation business, roles of major players, contractual matters between players, etc.)
-Authentication of digital content (authentication systems for digital content being exchanged, U.S. copyright registration system, etc.)