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'Doraemon' museum set to open next year - 0 views

  • The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum is scheduled to open Sept. 3, 2011, in Kawasaki, the city where he spent more than three decades until his death in 1996
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Copyright quandary - 0 views

  • 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.
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  • We also cannot overlook the number of copies sold – 13,000 was too many.”
  • But we don’t categorically reject fanzines in general (as a base of manga culture) as long as they remain within reasonable bounds.
  • “If publishers basically approve the existence of such fanzines, the creation of a new rule should be studied, which would require fanzines selling more than a certain number of copies to pay part of their profits to copyright holders,” said Yukari Fujimoto, a social critic.
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The Truth Behind Shogakukan's Agressiveness Toward Doraemon Doujinshi? | ComiPress - 0 views

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