The Japanese government is considering introducing a law regulating the activities of cosplayers in the country in an attempt to establish effective legal mechanisms regarding the profit that cosplayers receive from embodying copyrighted art. Information about this was shared by the local press.
The Japanese legislature does not have any ready-made projects, but the question of cosplayers, whose activities are often limited. “gray“legal zones, has been raised by the government more than once.
The stumbling block is the actions of some models implying direct monetization – cosplayers sell their photographs, take money for participating in public events, and sometimes even sell costumes and accessories created in accordance with the appearance of anime, manga and game characters…
One of the members of the Japanese Parliament called on the authorities to create “mutually beneficial ecosystem“for cosplayers and copyright holders, which, in his opinion, is essential in an era when the audience is actively creating their own content based on someone else’s intellectual property.
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