June 3, 2020 Announcement of Results of FY2019 Follow-up Survey on Guidelines for Regulation on Production and Trade of Broadcast Content Developed

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) conducted a follow-up survey from February 13 through March 13, 2020, on the Guidelines for Regulation on Production and Trade of Broadcast Content Developed. MIC has recently completed a report on the survey and decided to release the same.

1. Survey background

MIC formulated the Guidelines for Regulation on Production and Trade of Broadcast Content Developed (hereafter referred to as “Guidelines”) in 2009 from the viewpoint of improving the production environment and motivation for production in the broadcasting content field. Since then, MIC has been promoting the proper production and trade of broadcast content between broadcasters and program production companies.
MIC has been conducting regular surveys on the production and trade of broadcasting content as a follow-up to the Guidelines.
MIC conducted a follow-up survey from February 13 through March 13, 2020, to understand the status of the production and trade of the latest broadcasting content and has completed the report.

2. Response status and survey results

1. Response status

Number of target companies: 1,667
Breakdown: 555 broadcasting companies and 1,112 program production companies
Number of companies responded: 809 companies (response rate: 48.5%)
Breakdown: 510 broadcasters (response rate: 91.9%) and program production companies 299 (response rate: 26.9%)

2. Survey results

The published material is in Japanese only.

3. Future plans

To further promote the proper production and trade of broadcast content, MIC regularly hold meetings with the Study Group on Verification and Review on Promotion of Production and Trade of Broadcast Content (chaired by Masayuki Funada, Professor Emeritus, Rikkyo University). The Study Group is studying ways to sort out copyright attributions and optimizing subcontracting transactions between production companies and planning to revise the Guidelines this summer. The results of this survey will be utilized for MIC’s measures to promote the proper production and trade of broadcasting content, as well as revisions to the Guidelines. Furthermore, MIC will work in cooperation with the private sector and further disseminate and entrench the revised Guidelines for broadcasters and program production companies.