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Nele Noppe

Icarus Publishing · Last thoughts on Detergent Magma - 1 views

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  • I believe I’ve done this before, but given some of the stuff I’ve been reading on forums and the like, I feel the need to once again address plagiarism and doujinshi, especially how the two are not related.
  • Yet how do Japanese artists and readers reconcile their rejection of plagiarism with the wanton copyright infringement observed in most doujinshi?  Well, plagiarism is only a subset of copyright infringement, one which seeks to obscure true authorship.  Parody doujinshi are derivative work, but there is no confusion over the originator of the characters and ideas, no attempt to hide the source.  And there is still an expectation that the expression is original, that what one sees in a doujinshi – the artistry, the craft, the performance – is honest and real.  Comic art is indeed a performance, the paper is its stage.  Sometimes, one might borrow other characters for his play, but one cannot scratch the name off the director’s chair and replace it with his own.
Nele Noppe

Comics key 'to learning more about N Korea' - 0 views

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  • AN academic believes he has found a way to understanding the communist state of North Korea: by reading its comic books. Heinz Insu Fenkl, a literature professor at the State University of New York who describes himself as an American-Korean, produces English translations of the hard-to-find graphic novels, which are called "gruim-chaek" in North Korea.
Nele Noppe

World's biggest manga, anime and video game archive facility, Tokyo International Manga... - 1 views

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  • World’s biggest manga, anime and video game archive facility, Tokyo International Manga Library, set to open in 2014
Nele Noppe

PostGender: Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture - 3 views

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Ariane Beldi

Rock legend Gene Simmons' son in manga plagiarism storm | CNNGo.com - 1 views

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  • Ariane Beldi on 26 Feb 10
     
    This is an additional ironic twist of fate. American pop music star copying Japanese mangas....when for decades, Japanese have been accused of copying everything that was coming from the West and being unable to create anything of their own. However, besides this anecdotic issue, this story points out another that is a lot more preoccupying, that is piracy and copyrights violation. From what I can see on the livejournal entry that offers a frame-by-frame comparison of Simmon's manga and Bleach, it does look like he has been heavily copying not only the graphic style but also the character design and whole scenes from Bleach. However, this doesn't really tell us how much Simmon actually took from Bleach, especially at the narrative level. Did he also heavily take from its story or did he simply inserted scenes that he found cool and inspiring within a fictional universe of his own? This isn't really clear from any of the comments. But then again, when one looks at the extraordinary resemblance between graphic design and characters from one manga to the other, it might also be difficult to accue him of plagiarism. After all, even though there is some diversity of representations in manga, it is kind of limited by some aesthetic codes. In the end, manga heroes within the same genres do tend to look extraordinarily alike to the point that it isn't rare to confuse them, if they are taken out of their original context.
Ariane Beldi

ROME REPORTS TV News Agency - Saints make the leap to manga - 1 views

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  • Ariane Beldi on 25 Feb 10
     
    Real manga saints, straight from the Vatican!
Nele Noppe

National library opens manga reading section - Taiwan News Online - 0 views

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  • a landmark measure justifying manga's status in the publishing sector and its value for readers in Taiwan.
  • under the old restriction barring the national library from putting comic books on open shelves, the library gave away the comics it collected to local libraries until recent years.
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