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German government slaps restrictions on Finder - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 01 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Several of my German correspondents have contacted me to let me know that vol. 1 of Ayano Yamane’s Finder has been “indexed” in Germany. That means that it has been deemed harmful to minors and not only is its distribution restricted, it cannot be “advertised”—which means that bloggers in Germany can’t even mention it, which is why they passed the news along to me. Here’s the gist of the law:
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Otaku2 - Doujinshi and Law - 0 views

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  • An increasingly popular outlet for manga enthusiasts is doujinshi, meaning both fan-produced manga and the “circles” that create them. They flout copyright law and rearticulate the characters they love, and their numbers are many—the largest public get-together in Japan is not a World Cup or Olympic gathering, but rather a doujinshi market called Comike.
  • Legally, fans can produce whatever they want insofar as it’s not blatantly for profit or obscene.
  • Researcher Gunnar Hempel, 27, a Sophia University MA who wrote his thesis on the phenomenon, estimates there are 8,000 Japanese living off doujinshi, but stresses the number could be greater thanks to digital publishing. A “professional doujinshi” artist scrapes by on some 12,000 yen a month, but can gross 32,000 yen from large sales events.
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  • that allowing fans to produce keeps them interested, provides free market research, and cultivates new talent.
  • This year, Kadokawa made a landmark deal allowing “mad movies” of their "Suzumiya Haruhi" anime as long as fans marked posts on YouTube and Nico Nico Douga with Kadokawa logos. Haruhi remains their flagship series, in part because of internet support.
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U.S., Japanese Publishers Unite Against Manga Scan Sites - Anime News Network - 1 views

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shared by Claudia Márquez on 08 Jun 10 - Cached
  • The Japanese Digital Comic Association is reportedly threatening legal action against 30 scanlation sites, whose names were not revealed.
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Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 15 Feb 09 - No Cached
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