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| Selling fanfiction is illegal? |
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| Romantique Tp:
IIRC unauthorized doujinshi is also illegal, it's just that japanese companies usually see them as free promotion, so they don't really care if you sell your fan-made stuff. |
| TakuTaku:
So I'm free to sell doujinshi based of Japanese anime and games but not of western ones? |
| ?q:
If I'm not mistaken, it comes down to American/Western copyright law and the enforcement thereof. If you don't live in an area where the copyright law enforcement is lax, you're out of luck. |
| Iced Fairy:
Depends on your country. You see copyright laws aren't universal (no matter how bad certain industries try to make them so). In Japan not enforcing your copyright, or enforcing it selectively, means absolutely nothing legally. So Japanese companies are free to let doujin makers put out works. If you live in Japan you're probably okay. In America certain lobbies have successfully gotten the courts to make it so that if you don't defend your copyright like a rabid dog, you lose it. This allows large companies to legally steal from people who can't afford a team of lawyers to troll the market 24/7 to enforce copyright. It also forces everyone who wants to keep their copyright to send rabid lawyers to challenge anyone who MIGHT be violating it. Other places? I don't know. Depends on if the law is closer to US or Japanese law. |
| VIVItheFujoshi:
i know a pair of fanfics who are selled without problems, and are about western things.... http://www.lulu.com/product/tapa-blanda/with-strings-attached-or-the-big-pink-job/14606119 a Beatles fanfiction, one of the best ones in internet and epic in very aspects...the author wrote this 20 years ago (only ended in 2009) even that, she avoid tho write some words (like the name of the band) for copyright. (even that, when you say "the fab four" you know exactly who they are, nee?) Harry Potter y el Ocaso de los Altos Elfos. a Harry Potter complete fanfic book done, but i don?t know if this is selled or not. (even that, you can downloaded) I remembered this one because the author is Chilean n_n i don?t know if doujins with western charas can be sell. But i know who exist Beatles doujinshi in Japan (a rarity, but exist XD) or PPG. i think who you must ask first to someone who knows about copyright laws...anyways, a "fanfiction" have the same spirit of a "novel doujinshi" (and a fanzine is almost like a doujin, too)...how the genre no appear in the Otakon policies, probably you must ask about a limited number of copies. ...wait...But Harry Potter is a western book, and Otakon is a Japanese animation,games and other things related convencion, and for that called like that? (from "otaku")...mm...probably you must think in seel your fanfiction in a Harry Potter con, maybe in Otakon you no will be admitted (i believe) And all is because we used the word otaku for mean "anime,manga,japan videojames, japan related fan" only, meanwhile in Japan the word is used for any geek (computer fan, mecha fan, weapon fan, idol fan, animation fan, and a looong etc) with the animation-manga otakus and fangirls (or fujoshis, the rotten girls) like the first majority.(that mean who i was a otaku since long time, for my beatlemania) |
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