Square Enix sued by SNK Playmore

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lol This comic is pretty funny tho.

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(d-_-b) (the user above) is like one of those filthy capitalist pigs speaking in third world countries as if they were gods and their word was the absolute truth, about how the people there should just submit to multinational companies all of the natural resources because they can exploit them better and that will bring a lot of richness to the country.

Guess what, they make all dollars flow to first world countries and care about nothing else.

Why would SNKP sell their company and IPs the same way? they should keep exploiting them and come afloat.

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someone explain to me copyright laws in japan. cause they have a shit ton of hentai’s that would seemingly infringe on these laws and nothing ever happens to the creators. what am i missing?

The doujin market is somewhat of a grey area for the industry. The publishers and authors of the original works are willing to turn a blind eye so long as they keep it low key. Most pornographic doujin, and doujin in general, is sold at comiket, a bi annual comic market event.
-The vast majority of groups/circles don’t make/sell that many copies, and often barely break even in terms of profit, so it really wouldn’t be worth suing joe mangaka. Even out of the few, really popular groups, few of them get any kind of deals to get their works in stores.
-Many prominent mangaka got their starts at comiket and would go on to be big earners for the industry, so to stifle what could be “the next big thing” could hurt the industry. And authors who got their start making derivative works would be reluctant to go after those who parody them.
-The comiket events were built around a spirit of openness and equality to give people a chance to publicize their works without going through “big manga”. This meant people could publish what they want, now matter how shocking, offensive or perverted. Ironically, derivative and parody works of “big manga” became far more popular than original material. The laissez-faire spirit remains.

Basically, as long as they don’t make too much money, they don’t care.

someone explain to me copyright laws in japan. cause they have a shit ton of hentai’s that would seemingly infringe on these laws and nothing ever happens to the creators. what am i missing?

I’m pretty sure they have their own fair use under parody rights. I normally don’t read parody hentai, but the ones I’ve seen never use the actual logo or put a copyright of the property as if they got permission to use it. Moreover, its s parody of the series in the first place. Whereas high school girl isn’t parodying the SNK properties. They just straight up put them in the manga, logo, characters and all. If they were smart they would’ve them like “Queen of Fighters”, or “Samurai Rumble” or something like that.

Or you know. They could’ve just gotten permission.

im more inclined to believe kromo. parody is to make fun of something. to make a hentai isnt outright making fun of something…you arent reading it for humor for the most part.

but what kromo speaks of is something american market has had for years. its basically what has kept the comic industry afloat and built new stars.

I quote from the internet

A parody, in use, is an imitative work created to imitate, or comment on and trivialize an original work,

As long as the doujin imitates the series through use of it’s characters, it is in fact a parody. Parody does not directly imply comedic intent. For instance, the Zone Sama flash things keep him/her from millions in legal settlements due to them being protected under fair use as parodic content.