Abstract
As the new technologies opened up new avenues of creativity and communication, they also created new problems for the copyright law for protecting the right of authors. This paper will discuss the copyright law in Japan, considering comparatively the formation of the law in England and the United States as follows.
1) Preface
2) The Method of the Study of the Copyright
3) The History of the Anglo-American Copyright Law
4) The Enactment and Revision of the Japanese Copyright Law
