fanfic forensics

She identifies Pokémon as a media form that has defined the current framework, laying the groundwork for peer-to-peer communication and creation of media. While the current generation has outgrown Pokémon, the game franchise shaped how global youth think about culture and gaming. It linked analog and digital media, she proposes, by creating an electronic game that later manifested as a collectible card game, manga, anime, toys and other media. It put portability at the center of the media mix, and helped establish Japanese media content as a transnational source of cultural capital

She sees a generation of kids engaging in a set of cultural practices - cutting, pasting, linking and forwarding in spaces like MySpace

Individual identity is no longer consumer or producer - there’s a middle ground that includes connoisseur and amateur.

Pokemon doujinshi case, in which a female doujin creator was arrested for being suspected of copyright violation

Sales of fanzines had never really caused big problems so long as they were done only at one-day fanzine exhibitions. However, some fanzines now sell in the thousands or tens of thousands of copies due to an increase in the number of bookstores selling them and the popularity of Internet shopping.

Even after the man had stopped selling it by himself, his fanzine carrying Doraemon’s “final” episode continued to be sold at Internet auctions, sometimes going for tens of thousands of yen.

Yet the series remains unfinished due to Fujiko’s death in 1996.

he will pay an undisclosed amount of money for the settlement based on the sales generated by the doujins

Many doujinshi creators have criticized Shogakukan for taking legal actions and generally making a big deal out of one doujinshi.

The doujinshi was sold at a doujin shop in Akihabara and via internet for around 500 yen, and managed to sell over over 13,000 copies before being stopped by Shogakukan.

Doujinshi arrests are based on three major dimensions: copyright, taxation and obscene expression.