Intellectual Property Content Strategy

■ Intellectual Property Content StrategyI served as the chair of the Content Working Group of the Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters.  The pillars of its intellectual property plan are as follows,1) Content strategy for the Web3.0 era, etc.2) Reform of copyright regulatory structures and related policies in line with the digital era3) Realization of a digital archive-based society4) Strengthening of measures against counterfeit products and pirated material5) Support for video production through improvements to shooting location...

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How to Listen to Music

■ How to Listen to MusicIn How to Listen to Music, Naoki Tachikawa selects 100 albums from 1975 and 100 from 2021.These include many songs that I have never listened to or don't know, so I check these one by one.At the same time, I was excited to also see a lot of songs that I would definitely include if I were doing the selection.Cornering Mr. Tachikawa when he visited the Okinawa International Movie Festival, I ran my thoughts by him.Tachikawa's selection for 1975, when he was 26, starts with Syd Barrett.Why?"Because I liked him."The bass line...

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The Paraconsistent World

■ The Paraconsistent WorldThe Paraconsistent World is a book by Jun Sawada, President of NTT.I underestimated this amazing book.Amazingly profound ideology and management philosophy underlaid IOWN, the grand technology concept that followed INS, VIP, and NGN.Appearing amid the DX boom, this digital book connects the opposing sides of digital and analog, global and local, and centralization and decentralization. It accommodates contradictions and conflicts between the pairs as it addresses the shift from trade-offs to paraconsistency (i.e., simultaneous...

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Report of the Commercial Broadcasters Association: In the Midst of Two Wars

■ Report of the Commercial Broadcasters Association: In the Midst of Two WarsI contributed the foreword to the report from the Digital Network Study Group of the Commercial Broadcasters Association.　---------　Humanity today faces unprecedented trials in COVID-19 and Ukraine. We find ourselves in the midst of two wars.　Across the globe, COVID-19 pushed DX forward several years. Japan acknowledged its defeat in the digital arena and established the Digital Agency. Amid these landslide events, what roles did television and radio play?　The invasion...

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