[Linkspam] copyright laws
Oct. 17th, 2007 05:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Here is an interesting article on copyright laws, violations thereof, and reactions to said violations. It's part of a series on unenforced American laws, and how non-enforcement is actually a vital and dynamic part of our legal system.
There's an article in this month's Wired magazine that makes a similar point with regard to Japan's doujinshi industry. Cultural sychronicity at work? (I would link to the article, but Google has failed me. *pout* You should go look at the magazine anyway -- it also has an interesting 10-page spread on the history of manga in the US, done as a vaguely shojo manga. The page layout's a little awkward/unclear in places, but it's info, not a story, so it's not too much of a problem.)
There's an article in this month's Wired magazine that makes a similar point with regard to Japan's doujinshi industry. Cultural sychronicity at work? (I would link to the article, but Google has failed me. *pout* You should go look at the magazine anyway -- it also has an interesting 10-page spread on the history of manga in the US, done as a vaguely shojo manga. The page layout's a little awkward/unclear in places, but it's info, not a story, so it's not too much of a problem.)
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Date: 2007-10-17 10:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-18 10:08 pm (UTC)What impressed me the most about the 10-page manga spread was that they actually did it from right to left. So you start on page 130, as it were, and read backward to page 120. (Actual page numbers escape me, sorry.)