[5] In 2006, Aozora Bunko organized to add a role as a public policy advocate to protect its current and anticipated catalog of freely accessible e-books.

[6] Aozora Bunko was created on the Internet in 1997 to provide broadly available, free access to Japanese literary works whose copyrights had expired.

[6] Japan and other countries accepted the terms of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, an 1886 international agreement about common copyright policies.

Aozora Bunko adopted an advocacy role in favor of continuing with the status quo, wherein laws do not go beyond the minimum copyright terms of the Berne Convention.

[8] Aozora Bunko pointed that extension of the copyright term had been influenced from the document titled "The U.S.–Japan Regulatory Reform and Competition Policy Initiative.

Aozora Bunko did not show any responses toward that and their petition calling for opposition against the extension of copyright term stopped from the modification of October 2008.