{"id":7399,"date":"2016-10-24T08:11:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T12:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2016-09-29T14:34:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:34:01","slug":"what-if-copyright-did-actually-balance-the-needs-of-the-creator-and-the-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/what-if-copyright-did-actually-balance-the-needs-of-the-creator-and-the-user\/","title":{"rendered":"What if copyright did actually balance the needs of the creator and the user?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-meta\">An article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tofugu.com\">Tofugu<\/a> (Japanese pop culture blog) about Doujinshi Culture has a fascinating description of a copyright system that truly balances the needs of both creator and user:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tofugu.com\/japan\/doujinshi-definition\/\"><span class=\"article-highlight\">Japan\u2019s Doujinshi Culture Of Creativity Through Theft <\/span> <small class=\"article-subtitle\"> <span class=\"article-highlight\"> And The Monster Trying To Destroy It<\/span><\/small><\/a><span class=\"article-highlight\"> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tofugu.com\/about\/people\/rich\/\" rel=\"author\">Rich<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tofugu.com\/about\/people\/michael-richey\/\" rel=\"author\">Michael Richey<\/a> \u2022 Art by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tofugu.com\/about\/people\/aya-francisco\/\">Aya Francisco.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-meta\">For those of you who are not otaku, doujinshi are fan created comics often based on characters and storylines created by someone else.\u00a0 Doujinshi Culture is big in Japan.\u00a0 There&#8217;s even an anime about becoming a doujinshi comiker:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=1150\">Comic Party<\/a>. \u00a0 In some ways it is very similar to fanfiction.\u00a0 However, as the article outlines, the balance of fan culture and artist copyright is very different than many in the US might be used to.\u00a0 Doujinshi creators are given the space to create, exhibit, and sell their fan works, using their love of someone else&#8217;s art to build a foundation for a career as a successful comic artist&#8230;for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-meta\">The US fan artist community isn&#8217;t devoid of success stories, but there is a definite undertone of danger for fans expressing their enjoyment of a comic through art, as expounded in this excellent talk on Fan Art Law at San Diego ComicCon and how it functions in the US:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xKBsTUjd910\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on Tofugu (Japanese pop culture blog) about Doujinshi Culture has a fascinating description of a copyright system that truly balances the needs of both creator and user:\u00a0 Japan\u2019s Doujinshi Culture Of Creativity Through Theft And The Monster Trying To Destroy It by Rich and Michael Richey \u2022 Art by Aya Francisco. For those&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/what-if-copyright-did-actually-balance-the-needs-of-the-creator-and-the-user\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What if copyright did actually balance the needs of the creator and the user?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-7399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-copyright"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4225,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/congressional-copyright-hearings\/","url_meta":{"origin":7399,"position":0},"title":"Congressional Copyright Hearings","author":"leems","date":"July 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Congress is finally reviewing copyright as it stands in the USA.\u00a0 But, according to the latest news, they are not including creators in the process.\u00a0 Oh, they're involving copyright holders, yes.\u00a0 The ginormous companies that have inherited, bought, or had signed over the copyright to thousands upon thousands of creative\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7703,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/john-philip-sousa-and-the-fifth-string\/","url_meta":{"origin":7399,"position":1},"title":"John Philip Sousa and the Fifth String","author":"leems","date":"August 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In my quest for author voices I found that John Philip Sousa, great conductor and composer, had also penned an impassioned and oddly prophetic argument about phonograph music as a copyright infringement and a harbinger of the death of amateur music. 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