LEGAL PROTECTION OF COSPLAY COSTUME BASED ON INDONESIA AND JAPAN’S COPYRIGHT AND DESIGN LAW

Abstract

The development of Japan populer culture especially cosplay in Indonesiain which on society done a commercialization in gaining profit from the business activities of making and selling services cosplay costume, raising a legal protection and the background’s of cosplay costume based on Indonesia and Japan Copyright and Industrial Design Law. The purposes of this thesis that is to get better understanding of a legal protection and also the background’s of cosplay costume based on Indonesia and Japan Copyright and Industrial Design Law with normative legal research. as the result of legal protection of cosplay costume based on Indonesia and Japan Copyright and Industrial Design Law has a similarity to cosplay costume is the protection of economic rights to the image design character as object (Image as object protected by copyright) in which the image character design have been carried out the exploitation of economic rights to do adaptation, transformation and reproduction of a image design character embodied into the costume form, especially character design image of various characters in media entertaiment know by publicAnd industrial design act indonesia and japan there are differences of view that in Indonesia industrial design five wider definition related to criteria of costume that is in the form of 3 dimention and made by handicraft, but in japan design act only give narrower definition of criteria of design.background of legal protection of cosplay costume based on indonesia and japan copyright and industrial design law has 3 aspect as background that is law aspect, culture aspect and politic economy aspect.