[Locked] FAKKU State of the Union 2016

Wait... doujin authors hold copyright over their works?

Fixed.

Looks like you need this.

Should I apply it twice a day daily?

Art if not original. Just like if you paint a painting of a person or copyright character. Your art is still your property as long as you don't claim it as your original creation of character art.

I don't log in to FAKKU that at all often, but I have subscribed, only for the reason I believe FAKKU is heading to the correct direction on how things should be - People should be rewarded for their hard work.

I guess i wont be using fakku anymore please delete my account since all of my favorites were deleted so its nonsense to keep something like trash

i really enjoyed using fakku but now its different

This thread...

My main focus has been eroge. Visual novels with pornographic content. I've been paying for these titles for years now, at one time even if my computer (64 bit) didn't allow me to even run them.

Guess what I did? I bought the game then hacked the DRM. (silly anti-piracy program)
I am grateful for the people that wrote those hacks for the same reason I am grateful towards the fan-subbing community. I would very much like to see them get a proper job out of their work instead of relying on donations.

I hate DRM but I love the content, however it should be clear that by buying their games I have helped a company and creators, and it has become a fast growing market. As a matter of fact a lot of professionally released eroge come without DRM, and I love these companies for that. (jast and mangagamer) I fully intend to lend out my hard copies to friends that are interested and I see this as promotion for a branch of fiction that has been my niche for years. There was never any money to be made off of people who were unaware of the existence of this product. I've since come out of the closet and got 2 of my friends to enjoy this content. This is a good thing in my opinion, because one of them has since bought a nukige title.

The same thing holds true for scanlations. I do hope this never goes away, but I'm given an opportunity to reach out to the makers of these manga and pay for them. Scanlation works have brought a whole new medium (hentai) to the attention of westerners, but I don't think it's wrong for those publishers to start cashing on the fanbase abroad.

A lot of this thread has been an utter disgrace that I've been reading up on. I'm just venting.

If you are personally in any way prohibited to support this site; I would never hold it against you.

If you however are one of those self-entitled egoists who think that they deserve free entertainment just because.... Well you might just be shooting everyone in the foot.

Fakku now brings Wani content legally. Top notch, uncensored. Take a minute to think about the Japanese fans who support these works that get to read them with mosaics... I almost feel guilty as a subscriber.

I hope Fakku will be successful, because I, too, have a lot of admiration for the people that produce these stories for me to read. I'll cancel most of my other subscriptions before I quit spending money here.



TL:DR You can export your favorites and are free to look them up to re-read them. It's been clear that most of you posting here are unaware of this even though it gets mentioned on nearly every page of the thread. If this sounds like you, please just go elsewhere already.

The whole legal issue behind doujinshi is pretty interesting and complex. There have even been a few thesis papers written on the subject. Even the late Yoshihiro Yonezawa published a book that basically outlines tons of suggestions on how to deal with the doujinshi situation:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4883790894

Within Japan, there is technically no fair-use clause in their copyright law. Because of this, those who make jokes, parodies, or criticisms of a trademarked or copyrighted material can be sued by the original copyright holders. However, the amount of lawsuits within Japan over copyright issues is pretty low compared to the US. It's something like in the 100 - 300 cases a year range according the the Japanese Supreme Court.

So, exactly why have Doujinshi been allowed? Well there are a number of factors for this reason. One of the biggest one however is the fact that the works are technically only sold on a single day and in very limited quantities. Comiket is a three day event, however, it is broken up into different categories per day. "Family", "Women", and "Fetish". Artist will book a table during the day that most relates to their work and be there for that single day only. They will sell their doujinshi for something like 500 ~ 800 yen and then the rest of the stock will be bought up by Toranoana and other third party stores who will resell it.

Wonder Festival is a similar situation to comiket. There is a fan area, where amateur sculptors sell garage kits of their fan made figures in limited quantities to attendees. How do they get away with this? Well, within the industry they basically grant all sellers within a fan section a "limited license" which allows them to sell the kit for only that day.

Both Comiket and Wonder Festival's organizations tend to look through what will be being sold for those days. If anything seems to be a bad idea (if a particular company is super against doujinshi/parody works) they will work with the artist/seller to see if they can come to some solution.

That's not to say that the doujinshi world hasn't had it's share of legal issues in the past. Back in 1999, Nintendo went after an artist for a Pokemon parody doujinshi she self published. This issue was HUGE. So much as that it's what basically began the huge talks of the legality of Doujinshi.

It's honestly all very complex and all kinds of crazy. A lot of the law is vague and companies don't really want to get into lawsuits over it.

One really good thesis paper I came across before was Nele Noppe's "The cultural economy of fanwork in Japan". Despite what some may think of it, it does contain a lot of really good cited information on how the entire doujinshi process happens from start to end. It even touches on the reason why doujinshi artists put the disclaimers in the back against auctions.

Becoming a legitimate publisher does in no way mean it would become less of a community. The forums are still free for everyone, and uploads were always made by only a limited number of users anyway. While there may be less content for now and you actually have to pay for most of it, it does in no way chance how the community around it works.