Re: Bandai Visual USA delays three releases, going BR exclusive??

starcade@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
You don't get it.

If a work is copyrighted and you want to view it, then either gain the
license somehow to view it or find something else to watch.

No, you still don't get it.

Not every license results in a sale.

If I read a book at the library, instead of buying it, I have exercised
the implied license for the book, BUT have NOT violated copyright, and did
NOT pay for it.

Same thing applies to watching a TV show being broadcast over the air,
buying a used DVD, listening to a song over the radio. None of these
results in any money from me being given to the copyright holders - and
yet I haven't broken any copyright laws.

If you want to read a book in the bookstore, guess what you've viewed
a copyrighted work without buying it.

I'm actually surprised you aren't seeing more action in Borders and
B&N and the like -- maybe one of the reasons that Borders is
considering selling part/all of it's operation (or so I read).

The US manga market hasn't figured out why all Asian manga is sold in
plastic wrap, otherwise you'd have the exact same situation you have today
- kids clogging up the aisles reading manga after manga after manga.
After all, a volume takes maybe, what, 15-20 minutes to read?

If you want to watch a TV show
on free TV (and leave the room during commericals if it's a commercial
station) guess what, you've watched a copyrighted work without paying
for it.

That's a little murkier, but it would be essentially the same concept,
except they basically gave over the license to the viewer with the
understanding that the sponsors would recoup their investment.

(And that's probably what the Japanese are expecting if they honestly
think this new model is going to work...)

Is more anime was broadcast, then yes, this would be a reasonable
expectation. I would assume it would also help with DVD sales.

Copyright does not equate to sales, it only gives the
copyright holder the potential to make sales, it doesn't guarentee them.

But it gives them the protection that, unless they give permission
otherwise, viewing it implies the sale.

Of course it's up to the copyright holders to enforce their copyrights.
If places like CruchyRoll exist, why haven't they been slapped into
oblivion by a ream of cease&desist letters? Even YouTube cooperates as
much as possible in deleting stuff, so why do these other sites continue
to exist?

It becomes rather hard to sit there and say "don't download anime" when
even the companies themselves seemingly don't care - and that goes for the
Japanese companies too. They MUST start enforcing their copyrights
overseas.

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It's not broken. It's...advanced.
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