Welcome to the special feature "Past / Present / Future of Cities & Media," joined by Media Researcher and Associate Professor Yutaka Iida from Ritsumeikan University's College of Social Sciences. In this episode, we invited lawyer Tasuku Mizuno for a discussion.
From the viewpoint of law and rules, we will deliver a multifaceted dialogue bridging theory and practice across diverse fields on how we should think about the present and the future of cities and media.
PROFILE
Tasuku Mizuno
A practicing lawyer at City Lights Law Office and a visiting professor at Kyushu University's Global Innovation Center. Board member of Creative Commons Japan and Arts and Law. Part-time lecturer at Keio University's Shonan Fujisawa Campus. An external executive of companies such as note Corporation. Authored "法のデザイン −創造性とイノベーションは法によって加速する" and co-authored "オープンデザイン参加と共創から生まれる「つくりかたの未来」."
Twitter: @TasukuMizuno
PROFILE
Yutaka Iida
Associate Professor at Ritsumeikan University's College of Social Sciences. Expert in media theory, media technology history, and cultural sociology. Born in 1979 in Hiroshima Prefecture. Completed coursework in the Ph.D. program at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies. Author of "テレビが見世物だったころ：初期テレビジョンの考古学" (Seikyusha, 2016), co-author of "メディア論" (The Open University of Japan, 2018), editor of "メディア技術史：デジタル社会の系譜と行方［改訂版］" (Hokuju Shuppan, 2017), co-editor of "現代文化への社会学：90年代と「いま」を比較する" (Hokuju Shuppan, 2018), and "現代メディア・イベント論：パブリック・ビューイングからゲーム実況まで" (Keiso Shobo, 2017).
Rules for a New Society
The Perspective of Legal Design
MizunoIn abstract terms, my work involves untangling the rights and contract relationships that are bound up with various resources—soft or hard—and arranging them in a form that is easy to use. For example, in the case of land and buildings, this involves issues of ownership or tenancy rights. In the field of soft content, various rights, such as copyrights, personal information protection, and portrait rights, are multi-layered.
I am thinking of new rules to make it easier to utilize resources, or to deliver works or content in the form that business people or creators wish. Although "law" is often perceived as something to be avoided or kept at bay, what I call "legal design," I believe, is a perspective and technology for reinterpreting law as a tool to realize desired business or creative outcomes and guide us in the direction of a desirable society.
