Abstract
The positive utilization of e-learning is one of the active plan for the lifelong education in Japan. The characteristics of the lifelong education is flexible learning style and e-learning is the eligible methods in this free style learners. But many adult learners could not operate computer literacy well and also the expression of Japanese copyright law is defected the free usages for lifelong education purpose except school education. In the US copyright the description of fair uses of educational purpose is secured the free uses for all educational purposes including the lifelong education. So I would recommend to introduce the concept of fair uses same as US copyright and to reconstruct our copyright environment adaptable for multimedia age.
