In the United States, many scholars analogize the right of publicity to copyright and some of them suggest a fair-use-like limitation. However, some Japanese lower courts remarked recently that publicity rights should be regarded as part of the rights of dignity. This article argues that publicity rights under Japanese law should be defined as interests in autonomous self-definition and analyzes the parallelism with the moral rights of an author in the Copyright Act.

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This study constructed a simultaneous equation model of CD sales and rentals, using the data by title of CDs appearing on the Rental Top 100 from 2005 to 2009 in order to investigate the relationship between the sale of a CD and its rental as well as the relationship between a CD and music distribution via networks. The results found both that a CD with high sales was rented frequently and that a CD that was rented frequently had a large amount of sales. This study also showed that the impact of an artist's previous performance on CD sales and rental differed, implying that consumers decided whether they purchased or rented a CD by different criteria. In addition, while hit music in the network distribution market was likely to become hit music in the CD retail market, a similar relationship between hits in the network distribution and rental markets was not found.

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This paper reviews the history of frequency auctions and M&A in the US and the EU, provided a study of the accounting for frequency auctions and M&A, and presents a benchmark survey upon telecom carriers. We found that there was a high value on intangible assets from frequency auctions and M&A. Thus, IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) will have a big impact on business planning for frequency auction and M&A. We propose that segment accounting be used as a way of managing companies so that this impact is reduced.

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