It's not on Ido's site yet and it basically hurts his sales.
Makes me wonder: why there's not a "Netflix for doujinshi". Not Fakku, which it's only for hentai; and Crunchyroll, only for official mangas. Considering that there's a lot of works being sold at the Comiket, I would pay to get those works translated and help the authors. Even a Danbooru, but more mobile-friendly and with direct contact and business with authors and mangakas.
If only I was millionaire... let me contact Elon Musk.
Doujin are, by Japanese law, actually illegal due to IP infringement; it's just ignored by the rights-holders usually. Now, you could do it in a Granblue-like fashion, where it's never actually stated or even implied that it's for consumption in English, just that it's provided to you in such - but if you had a doujin outside of Japan, then the rights holders in that country would be able to hit it with DMCA immediately.
Didn't know that and now my idea sounds impossible. It's kinda sad, because I got into Kantai Collection and Girls' Frontline because the doujin and fanart.
Didn't know that and now my idea sounds impossible. It's kinda sad, because I got into Kantai Collection and Girls' Frontline because the doujin and fanart.
Ido said: Dear those who can't buy my book or can't read Japanese... If you want to read the contents of my doujinshi in English, please reprint it after I upload the contents of the book to the web in the future. Thank you.
Doujin are, by Japanese law, actually illegal due to IP infringement; it's just ignored by the rights-holders usually. Now, you could do it in a Granblue-like fashion, where it's never actually stated or even implied that it's for consumption in English, just that it's provided to you in such - but if you had a doujin outside of Japan, then the rights holders in that country would be able to hit it with DMCA immediately.
Now, Original doujin? No problems there.
Philosophical tangent: The spirit of copyright and trademark law is to reward creative endeavors by allowing the authors the legal right to capture any revenue derived from their creations. I find myself contemplating whether some brilliant legal mind might someday find a way to legalize derivative works in a way that preserves that spirit in all respects - perhaps as some sort of concept where some proportion of revenue from a derivative work must automatically be paid to the original IP holder. ZUN, in particular, would be fantastically (and deservedly) rich if he personally got even 10% of the sales of all Touhou doujin-type works, never mind the percentage he's actually likely to be due.
I personally can't think of any way to make such a thing workable and fair, of course. Not just because it's not clear how anyone would decide what percentage might be due to the original author of any given thing, but because there are far more considerations than just sheer revenue - the authors of children's works, for example, have a legitimate interest in clamping down on porn based on those works.
Yeah. A collaboration between authors and IP holders would be amazing, but I don't see a Kadokawa, who doesn't even release Kantai Collection outside of Japan giving a fair percent.
I had a similar idea which I tried to send to Google: a platform where musicians could create pieces and artists could offer their animations/services, while Youtubers and users could use them to put them in their videos. Both get 50/50 of the revenue, promoting diversity in style and rewarding those who make amazing music. Dairin makes awesome animations (likethesethree) and gives the game and the musicians a really good promotion: he got me into Caravan Palace and Throttle because of those animations.
But, again, it would require corporations to being something similar to being humans.
They get promotion, more players/fanbase, more imagination and ideas to implement in their original work, but the greediness of these business is massive, to the point of not caring about their public (see the Sony/Disney fight over Spiderman).
For me, money is what moves the entertainment industry, not creativeness.
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