The Influence of Recent Court Cases Relating to Copyright Changes in Cloud Computing Services in Japan - Challenges of Information Management Beyond the Cloud - page 74

the target audience is a specific group of Internet users having access to the personal
webpages of the individual user providing content. In a similar case, the data of
copyrighted works are uploaded to a server located within a particular organization,
then access to and sharing of data is granted to members of that organization (Fig. 3).

Server within an
organization

Person in charge

Uploading
copyrighted works

Other persons within a group
or an organization

Fig. 3. Uploading the data of copyrighted works to a server within an organization and
browsing it in the same or other place

The third type of cloud computing services is a digital locker service, which
allows individual users to upload personal copies of protected works to their own
personal cloud storage space for later downloading or streaming on multiple devices,
or via a private video recorder allowing users to obtain recordings of TV programs for
the purpose of watching them at a more convenient time or place (Fig. 4). In this case,
the target audience is confined to the individual user [3].

Fig. 4. Digital locker service allowing individual users to upload personal copies of protected
works to personal cloud storage space