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  "case_id": "NICHION-VALSE-2021",
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  "description": "NICHION-VALSE-2021 public-redacted source index listing reviewed source categories, evidence grades, redaction status, public URLs, and source summaries for this record.",
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  "title": "Nichion / VALSE — Breaks Library Contract-Formation and Reliance-Cost Verification Record",
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  "positioning": "Public-redacted citation index. Not accusations. Not conclusions.",
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  "seo_topics": [
    "Nichion",
    "株式会社 日音",
    "Nichion Sound Library",
    "VALSE",
    "VALSE Inc.",
    "株式会社ヴァルス",
    "breaks library production",
    "ブレイクス制作案件",
    "NTRAX music upload",
    "contract-formation dispute",
    "pre-contract work",
    "reliance cost",
    "artist-ordering cost",
    "coordination fee",
    "demo production coordination",
    "sound library rights clearance",
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      "source_type": "publication review record",
      "title": "Factualist public-redaction review for Nichion / VALSE record",
      "public_summary": "Internal publication review for public-facing scope, named-party boundaries, redaction status, source separation, no-legal-conclusion framing, and right-of-reply posture.",
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      "source_id": "src-nv-drive-folder-inventory-20260618",
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      "title": "Private Drive folder inventory for Nichion / VALSE breaks library matter",
      "public_summary": "Reviewed folder inventory includes email-PDF chains, notice documents, project PDFs, sound-library guide material, and related evidence files concerning a 2021 breaks library production project. Raw file links, private filenames where unnecessary, private email addresses, artist identities, and private attachments are withheld from the public layer.",
      "observed_at": "2026/06/18",
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    },
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      "source_id": "src-nv-april-email-chain",
      "source_type": "email-PDF chain summary",
      "title": "April 2021 Nichion / VALSE breaks production email-chain summary",
      "public_summary": "Reviewed email-PDF chain covers April 2021 communications about uploaded tracks, a stop instruction before formal ordering, contract and rights-document preparation, coordination-fee discussion, demo-production coordination, and a later statement recognizing work performed for the project. Private email addresses, raw headers, individual contact details, and unrelated thread content are withheld.",
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      "title": "May 24, 2021 notice to Nichion summary",
      "public_summary": "Reviewed claimant-side notice to Nichion preserves the reporting side's position that work began after project discussions, that tracks and artist ordering had already progressed before the stop instruction, and that payment or reimbursement was owed. This is a claimant-side legal position, not an adjudicated finding.",
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      "title": "June 21, 2021 notice to VALSE summary",
      "public_summary": "Reviewed claimant-side notice to VALSE preserves the reporting side's position that VALSE acted as an intermediary in the project sequence and should answer unresolved responsibility and compensation questions. This is a claimant-side legal position, not an adjudicated finding.",
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      "source_id": "src-nv-sound-library-guide-2021",
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      "title": "Nichion sound-library guide context summary",
      "public_summary": "Reviewed guide material describes library music and rights-control context relevant to why copyright, master-rights, writer, publisher, JASRAC, and neighboring-rights confirmation were central to the project sequence.",
      "observed_at": "2021/04/26",
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      "source_id": "src-nv-nichion-official-corporate-20260618",
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      "title": "Nichion official corporate and services pages",
      "public_summary": "Nichion official public pages describe the company as a music publishing company under TBS Holdings and list services including copyright administration, master recording production, original music production, and library music provision.",
      "observed_at": "2026/06/18",
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        "https://www.nichion.co.jp/",
        "https://www.nichion.co.jp/en/",
        "https://www.nichion.co.jp/corporate/"
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      "source_id": "src-nv-nichion-sound-library-public-20260618",
      "source_type": "public official website",
      "title": "Nichion Sounds Library official public page",
      "public_summary": "Nichion Sounds Library public materials describe a professional library-music service for visual and spatial productions. This public source is used only as industry and service-context material.",
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      "source_id": "src-nv-valse-official-company-20260618",
      "source_type": "public official website",
      "title": "VALSE official company page",
      "public_summary": "VALSE official public company materials describe VALSE Inc. / 株式会社ヴァルス and business areas including music selection, sound effects, broadcast MA work, sports DJ work, and music production / production-related work.",
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