The expressions and timing on this one had me chuckling even more than usual.

Chamupei says he based this version of Kasen on the Peanuts character Frieda, who would lecture Snoopy to act more dog-like.

Man, I really love Marisa/Woodstock smirking face in panel 4.

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Why do most copyright-holders have to be such dicks?

Schrobby said:
Why do most copyright-holders have to be such dicks?

Because they don't know there's a difference between a parody/crossover and a plagiarism. And they're often paranoid when they're not asked about works like that.

FRien said:
Because they don't know there's a difference between a parody/crossover and a plagiarism. And they're often paranoid when they're not asked about works like that.

I think it's more about money.

Silly Kasen, people from the village don't visit this shrine...

duocean said:
I think it's more about money.

It always is.

FRien said:
Because they don't know there's a difference between a parody/crossover and a plagiarism. And they're often paranoid when they're not asked about works like that.

As far as I know, isn't there going to be a law soon that makes copyrights in Japan a lot more restrictive? It adds the idea of neighborhood copyright, which gives control of the copyright to everyone involved in the production of the work, from editors, researchers (market research), printers, etc.

Its designed to help the e-book industry but also applies to manga/anime, its why Negima got ended early because Ken is in a legal battle with his publisher, kodansha, and shut down his art studio. Some other artists joined this protest, supposedly, but I haven't found any other news about this.

Chamupei got legal issues with touhou peanuts? i thought that strip was only for joke when he implied it..

and damn, if what anelaid is true, would be danbooru and site like touhouwiki facing an issue too?

Anelaid said:
As far as I know, isn't there going to be a law soon that makes copyrights in Japan a lot more restrictive? It adds the idea of neighborhood copyright, which gives control of the copyright to everyone involved in the production of the work, from editors, researchers (market research), printers, etc.

Its designed to help the e-book industry but also applies to manga/anime, its why Negima got ended early because Ken is in a legal battle with his publisher, kodansha, and shut down his art studio. Some other artists joined this protest, supposedly, but I haven't found any other news about this.

We don't care about Japan. Peanuts is american, and is subject to the USA's copyright law. Not Japan's.
And when you consider that Schulz became rich because of Peanuts, you can figure by yourself why the people in charge of the Peanuts license are so easily angered by crossovers like that.

I don't understand why the *_(cosplay) tags in this pool. I can only see the proper touhous.

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Anelaid said:
There is no "we" so you shouldn't use that language, its awfully presumptive of your own feelings.

Besides, what you say is silly in the light that pixiv could run into issues, or anything that the publisher goes after, which includes scanlations, could suddenly become illegal.

So yeah, drop the attitude and try to think of things in other perspectives.

I'm not sure if you're an idiot or if you're just trying to piss me off by misunderstanding every I say.
In both case, I'm not going to repeat myself. Re-read what I wrote, and think hard about it.

Anelaid said:
You shouldn't be the one to talk as you also misunderstood my post, and discussed something completely unrelated to mine, so maybe you should take a step back and reconsider your position.

And you continue being either an idiot, either a troll. In both cases, I'll keep not repeating what I said, and I'll keep encouraging you into re-read what I wrote.

Schrobby said:
Why do most copyright-holders have to be such dicks?

If you don't enforce your copyright against everyone using it, you lose the power to enforce it against someone you really need to use it against.

There is no "we" so you shouldn't use that language, its awfully presumptive of your own feelings.

He was talking about the US Legal System.

Which I think is wrong? Wouldn't you be suing the guy in Japan, using international copyright law that Japan is a signatory of?

Also, yes, scanlations are violations of copyright law, so are game translations. International copyright law specifically mentions translations being violations actually.

It's tolerated by the Japanese studios because it's too much of a pain to enforce it, they get some advertising for it, and we self police (a tiny bit); not because we're within our rights to sub an unlicensed series.

(No bump post, this is getting retarded)

Dr Fine Rolo perfectly explained my position. I thank him for that, he explained better than I did, actually. I'm not bumping this either, even if I find the whole thing hilarious.

Yeah things got out of hand here on my part, I have no idea what happened.

I love the line "Damnation descends to you".

Moonspeaker said:
The expressions and timing on this one had me chuckling even more than usual.

Chamupei says he based this version of Kasen on the Peanuts character Frieda, who would lecture Snoopy to act more dog-like.

Ah ha, I thought so! *Peanuts maniac*

Dr_Fine_Rolo said:
If you don't enforce your copyright against everyone using it, you lose the power to enforce it against someone you really need to use it against.

Actually, no. Copyright persists for its duration (currently the life of the author plus 70 years), without any invalidation for not being defended. You're thinking of trademarks, which do go away if undefended, or if unused for a given length of time.

To avoid tl;dr-ing myself: Intellectual property law is complex.

With that signature pose Kasen breaks out, I realized just how close of a reenactment this is of W&HH Ch. 1. Aside from the Snoop-ish retaliation, of course.