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Hideaki Shirata

Hideaki Shirata is an assistant professor at the Hosei University and a part-time lecturer at the Hitotsubashi University and the Musashino Art University all in Tokyo Japan. He took the degree of his doctorate in law at the Hitotsubashi University in 1998. His doctoral dissertation was published as "The Development of Copyright: Its Origin in England and Development in America, (Shinzan-sya Pub. Co., July 1998)." The work investigate the origin of the idea of copyright from 1476 and its development to 1891 in detail. The work is the first exhaustive legal history of Anglo-American copyright law written in Japanese. He has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes, especially for the intellectual property law. He also has been interested in ethical matters of a computerized and networked society.

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De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Interreticuli [9] Political Difficulties and Policy Launderings, HotWired Japan, Bit Literacy Column, Mar. 2, 2004. De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Interreticuli [8] On Being Political on the Net, HotWired Japan, Bit Literacy Column, Feb. 3, 2004. De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Interreticuli [7] A Record of the Discussion at the Party, HotWired Japan, Bit Literacy Column, Dec. 23, 2003. De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Interreticuli [6] On Authority and Protocol, HotWired Japan, Bit Literacy Column, Oct. 28, 2003. De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Interreticuli [5] On Intellectual Property and Intellectual Feudalism, HotWired Japan, Bit Literacy Column, Sep. 23, 2003. On the Law in the Information Age, (Sep. 25, 2003, Luncheon Discussion Party on Economic Issues in Josui-kai). Licenses for Freedom: An Analysis of Online Licenses [3], in Internet Magazine, Impress, Sep. 27, 2003. De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Interreticuli [4] On Reputation, Self-help and Law, HotWired Japan, Bit Literacy Column, Aug 26, 2003. Licenses for Freedom: An Analysis of Online Licenses [2], in Internet Magazine, Impress, July 27, 2003. De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Interreticuli [3] On Self-help and Dispute Resolution, HotWired Japan, Bit Literacy Column, July 23, 2003. Licenses for Freedom: An Analysis of Online Licenses [1], in Internet Magazine, Impress, June 28, 2003.

De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Interreticuli [2] On Anonymous Speech, HotWired Japan, Bit Literacy Column, June 24, 2003. De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Interreticuli [1] Let's Think About Law on the Net, HotWired Japan, Bit Literacy Column, May 20, 2003. The Commons, As a Guideline for the Future, in Book and Computer / 2003 Spring, Transart, Mar. 10, 2003. The Creative Commons: A New Government for the Freedom of Works?, in Internet Magazine, Impress, Feb. 28, 2003. A Guide to Prof. Lessig's "Commons (the future of ideas)" --- Its suggestion to the situation in Japan, HotWired Japan, Bit Literacy Column, Jan. 20, 2003. A Comment on "the future of ideas:" or a turning Lessig's ideas to my own advantage, A new year present for network society in Japan, Jan. 2003. Legal Costs on Starting-up An E-Commerce Company, The Hitotsubashi Review, Vol. 128 No. 4., (Hitotsubashi Univ., Oct. 2002). The Freedom of Speech in the Information Age, Online Available, (Blue Sky Collection Pub., Oct. 2002, coming). Eight items relating to copyright, in Encyclopedia of Media and Information Studies (Kitagawa Takatsugu and others ed., Kobundo Pub. Co., June 2002). An Outlook of the Cyber World, in a column "Net Agora" on Asahi Shin-bun, Mar. 22, 2002. A Comment on Dr. Hayashi's "A Proposal of General Information Industry Law", in A Survay on the Information Society in 21th Century -- An Interim Report of Glocom 2001, (International University Glocom, Mar. 2002). A Commentary on "Information Provider Responsibility Restriction Act of 2001", A new year present for network society in Japan, Jan. 2002. YAMANE Shinji, TATSUMI Takeo, SHIRATA Hideaki, A Discussion on the Security Rating Agencies for the Insurance, ABSTRACT, Computer Security Symposium 2001, Oct. 2001. Capturing the Grigori -- a tale of the Constitution in the Information Age, ExpandBook, (Blue Sky Collection Pub., Sept. 2001). TATSUMI Takeo, YAMANE Shinji, SHIRATA Hideaki, A Proposal of Rating on the Protection System of Net-user's Privacy, ABSTRACT, Information Processing Society of Japan, 62nd General Meeting (2001). The Origin of Two American Copyright Theories -- A Case of the Reception of English Law --, ABSTRACT, The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, Vol. 30 No. 3. (Heldref Publications. Fall 2000). A Hypothesis: Information Technology Determinism of Copyright, (A Lecture at International Research Center for Japanese Studies. Mar. 2000). Ethical Matters, in The Information Security, (Kyoritsu Shuppan Co. Ltd. Jan. 2000). Another Viewpoint on Privacy in the Information Age, ExpandBook, (Blue Sky Collection Pub. Sept. 1999). A Report on the Protection of Personal Information in the Electronic Job Matching Process, in Job Information in The Internet: Its Present and Problems, (Association of Job Journal of Japan. Mar. 1999). How and Whom the Act Protects? --- An Analysis on the Aim and Effects of CDAs, ABSTRACT (The Electronic Intellectual Property and Social Infrastructure Study Group of The Information Processing Society of Japan, at Kogakuin University, Jan. 30 1999). Freedom and Ethics on Computer Networks, (Workshop for the Education in the Information Age, at Meiji University Information Science Center, Nov. 21 1998). Review: Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc., 776 F.Supp. 135 (1991). AMERICA HO, Japanese American Society for Legal Studies, [1998], no.1. Another Viewpoint on Author's Right and Copyright, ExpandBook, (Blue Sky Collection Pub. July 1998). The Development of Copyright: Its Origin in England and Development in America, Hardcover, (Shinzan Sya Pub. Co., July 1998). A Principle of Copyright and Modern Copyright Theories, (Jan. 31 and Feb. 2 1998, Hikakuhousi Gakkai / International University Glocom). A Historical Research on Anglo-American Copyright and Publishing, Doctor's thesis (1997). The Development of Copyright (1): Printing Privileges in Early Modern England, Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Sciences Vol.19 No.4 (1995). ----- (2): Stationers' Copyright and the English Stock, Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Sciences Vol.20 No.1 (1995). ----- (3): Confusion of Censorship and Copyright, Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Sciences Vol.20 No.3 (1995). ----- (4): Separation of Censorship and Copyright, Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Sciences Vol.20 No.4 (1996). ----- (5): The First Copyright Statute and Its Effects, Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Sciences Vol.21 No.1 (1996). ----- (6): The Battle of Booksellers (I), Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Sciences Vol.21 No.2 (1996). ----- (7): The Battle of Booksellers (II), Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Sciences Vol.21 No.3 (1996). Legal Problems in the Development of Information Technologies in Comparative Legal Studies on Freedom of Information and Privacy, Masao Horibe, (Nihon Hyohronsha Pub. Co., Dec. 1996). Inetrference with Internet by Judicial power in the United States, IAJ News, Internet Association of Japan, Vol.3 No.1 (April 1996). Hacker Ethic, Freedom of Information and Privacy, in Legal and Social System in the Information Age (Mar. 1995). The Definition of the word "Information" in Statutes and Cases, in A Study of Civil Liability for Defects of Information Products (June 1993).

E-mail: shirata1992@mercury.ne.jp