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Japan IP Court says sample family-court pleading is copyright-protected

By Toko Sekiguchi ( December 23, 2025, 08:24 GMT | Insight) -- Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court held that a template-style family-court sample pleading was copyright-protected, rejecting full-text reposting as lawful quotation or reporting and upholding removals, injunction limits and reputational findings.Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court held that a template-style “sample pleading” used in family court disputes qualified as a copyright-protected work, rejecting arguments that it was merely generic, and that reposting it online in full amounted to lawful quotation or news reporting....

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