1971: Film director loses copyright 03

Harada respected his predecessors who inherited the spirit of prewar labor unions, but there was one point where they disagreed.
In 2011, the Fukushima nuclear power plant exploded.
In Japan, mentioning or criticizing nuclear power was taboo.
However, liberal citizens looked up the issue on the Internet and widely appealed for the dangers of nuclear power.
After that, various issues that had been taboo up until then were made visible on the Internet.
Independent Internet media such as OurPlanet-TV and IWJ and freelance journalists began to gain recognition.
Harada also believed that citizen labor and labor movements should make full use of the Internet.
Even if you go to the trouble of handing out flyers in the city, only a few people will accept them, but if you post those flyers on the Internet, many people across the country will see them.
However, the older labor union members, despite their valuable and long union experience, were skeptical about using the Internet.
The reasons for this varied, but Harada seemed to think that they were afraid of the unprecedented style of being made public to the world all at once.
However, Takahashi, the chairman of Harada's labor union, encouraged Harada, saying, "Union members should use the Internet freely and as much as they like."
But one night, Harada got into an argument with a senior member of a labor union's affiliated organization. The veteran union leader was opposed to the Internet.
Harada had in fact been told by the union executive not to make public the "History of Labor Unions" that is posted on this blog, or the lecture records of Attorney Takezawa that we previously introduced, available on the Internet.
Perhaps they thought that making them public might cause unexpected harm or problems.

However, Harada, who was also a member of the newspaper club in high school, could not bear to not make public the actual facts that had happened.
In particular, Attorney Takezawa's commentary on copyright issues in 1971 is hardly being followed at present, but we recognize that it is a very valuable and important issue.
Therefore, this time, we would like to post the lecture records of Attorney Takezawa in the form of excerpts and summaries in several installments on this blog.