Looking to allow Diet members to freely post deliberations and other legislative activities on social media, the Liberal Democratic Party will embark on the promotion of digital transformation, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The subcommittee of the LDP's Research Commission on Intellectual Property Strategy has compiled a draft proposal for the use of digital contents by Diet members and plans to formally summarize its recommendations soon to submit them to the government.
Currently, lawmakers are required to obtain permission from the Diet to distribute videos of Diet deliberations through social media. In order to "ensure the freedom of political expression and improve the transparency of the governance system," the subcommittee included in the report the need to revise the law so that videos of this kind can be freely posted on social media.
Lawmakers are assisted in their legislative activities by National Diet Library staff members, who have not been allowed to send copied materials online via email or other means, so the lawmakers had to visit the library or receive the materials at their offices.
While the revised Copyright Law, which was passed Wednesday, allows Diet members to receive such materials by email, the draft proposal wants to further improve the system because the types of materials that can be sent via online methods are limited.
The promotion of digital transformation will not only improve the efficiency of legislative activities, but will also lead to the enhancement of the work of the library's staff and the reform of their work styles, an LDP source said.
The draft proposal also calls for international cooperation among investigative agencies to strengthen the crackdown on pirate sites that post manga and other works on the internet without permission, as well as the creation of a system that assists on legal procedures of related trials held in foreign countries.
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