Tokyo - The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) has filed a $1.2 million copyright infringement lawsuit against Pandora TV, which operates the "TV Break" user-posted video site, Billboard reports. JASRAC says it has been asking the company to license the music videos, movies and TV shows it offers since June 2007.

Tokyo - Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun reports that four major ISP groups in the country have agreed to partner with copyright groups to develop a protocol for closing the accounts of subscribers who repeatedly engage in illegal file-sharing.

Tokyo - After a second meeting with executives in Tokyo with YouTube and Google this week, a group of Japanese rights holders again demanded that their copyrighted material be removed from YouTube, the Associated Press reported.

Tokyo - Google's YouTube video-sharing service has agreed to post warnings on the Japanese version of its website that ask users not to upload copyrighted materials, Japanese media firms said Tuesday, Reuters reported.

Tokyo - Representatives from Google's YouTube video-sharing service will travel to Japan to meet with Japanese copyright owners and address their concerns over copyright infringement on the site.