Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to clarify young people’s attitudes toward the posting and use of copyrighted works on social media, using illustrations as an example. A questionnaire survey is conducted of 800 minors in Japan who have experience in posting and viewing illustrations. As a result, the majority of the respondents recognize that using other people’s illustrations on social media without permission is not fair. This paper also analyzes whether there were differences in how people judge the unfairness of use without permission by (1) whether they have posted their own works, (2) whether they have experienced use others’ works without permission, and (3) whether their works have been used without permission, through cross-tabulations and tests of difference of means. The results shows that those who have posted illustration tend to consider private copying/tracing and copying/tracing that involves posting on social media to be unfair. Those who have experienced use without permission or have been subjected to use without permission are more likely to estimate the unfairness of some unauthorized uses as lower.
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