Lantis & Sunrise Demand Removal of Anime Screen Caps
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 29, 2009 07:04 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Code Geass, Copyright, Gundam, Internet, Lantis, Sunrise
Two studios renowned for their extraordinarily draconian approach to copyright enforcement, Lantis and Sunrise, have apparently been demanding anime fan sites remove all episode caps, citing a breach of copyright. Publishing fan art online is also forbidden by Sunrise.
Even heavy hitter Yamakan has offered harsh criticism of the policy, which seems to lend substantial credibility to the missives. There is also some suspicion from the titles involved that copyright is not their only concern…
Lantis seems to have warned site administrators thus:
Dear (Redacted) Site Administrator,
This is Lantis Corporation.
We invest in the production committees of, and protect the IP of, the anime titles “Akikan”, “Asu no Yoichi”, “Sora o Miageru Shoujo” and “Kurokami”.
We have discovered that you appear to be using parts of our works on your site. We would like to request that you delete these parts, as soon as you have read this.
We do not permit any unauthorised images of our shows, of the characters or otherwise, in whole or in part, and expressly forbid the publication of such.
Regardless of whether the infringement is for profit or not for profit, it constitutes violation of our copyrights under Clause 1, Paragraph 23 of the Copyright Act.
Please be warned that should you not delete the infringing material we will be taking legal action against you.
An extraordinary missive.
Sunrise offer similar warnings:
Regarding the use of images of Sunrise products on the Internet:
On the Internet, even when not for commercial gain, or on a personal homepage, you may not use them.
We receive enquiries about permission such as “It’s not for profit” or “It’s a personal homepage”; even in these cases you can’t use them. On the Internet, even personal use constitutes “reproduction and distribution”, thus you cannot use any such images.
Regarding pictures or writing made yourself:
Even with pictures or writing made yourself, when incorporating Sunrise products they must not be distributed on the Internet.
Exceptions:
On our ISP we offer 5mb user homepages, wherein you may publish what you have made yourself.
So all the dirty little fan sites had better not be capping any Gundam or Geass either. No fan pictures from artists published online either.
It seems this may be a legally dubious basis for asserting copyright violation, but of course intimidation is the intended effect of such missives, so this hardly has any bearing on their tactics.
The fan response is predictably scathing, although there are as always more supine fans who do accept the premise that the caps constitute infringement and, for example, suggest using only very low quality images (not that this would appease the companies in question, who forbid any images at all).
After all, who would bother watching an anime, let alone buying a DVD with unknown juicy extra content, after seeing a few quality screenshots of it?
However, the vast majority would argue that screen captures have a huge marketing effect, serving both as publicity material and as reviews, and have a highly positive effect on sales, in most cases.
Some are suspicious that total control over fan activity is not the only motive these companies have in pursuing so ludicrous a ban. A quick look at the anime being brought up tends to support this:
Akikan
Kurokami
Asu no Yoichi
Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo
Sora o Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai
To put it politely, none of these titles are known for especially high quality production values, especially Akikan…
These warnings are applicable to Japanese domestic sites, but there seems little doubt they would be enforced against overseas sites too, were it only possible.
Famed Haruhi choreographer Yamakan, himself no stranger to such behaviour, has apparently weighed in on the issue, and is none too kind:
“Making copyright claims as if this is going to reduce viewer propensity to watch, or to buy, is truly a case of misplaced priorities indeed.
If your works are that precious to you, why don’t you stop broadcasting them on TV and selling the DVDs, and just exhibit them in an art gallery?”
The 2ch thread is preserved here.
The difference between these companies and relatively enlightened companies such as Kadokawa, or highly enlightened ones such as Gainax, seems to be as night and day.
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Wow, not even fan art?
Somebody sounds extremely butt-hurt.
This is just companies trying to prevent sites from saying how crappy their animes are.
Gintama is hardly crappy, bro.
now they are craps
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Well fuck you then.
Better put up a shitload of caps and fanart to my server and link it to them.
That's hitting your nose to spite your face. A monstrously ridiculous policy.
Fan sites put screen caps on the web because they are passionate (both good and bad) about the title.
'Cutting off your nose to spite your face' is the correct idiom you're looking for...
Some one needs to remind these two companies that when you fuck with the fans, the fans rape you back.
Just remembering the Kannagi kerfufle makes my skin crawl.
Guess I won't be buying the dvds when they come out or any other associated products.
Wow, and just when I thought people couldn't get any more stupid about anime. Asking for the removal of screencaps I can understand in a way (even though I think it's stupid) but FANART? That's ridiculous. Do these people know anything about their own fans? (Apparently, no.)
IANAL however doesn't fanart fall under fair use?
I believe Japan has no fair-use clauses in its copyright laws.
Even caps count as fair use. And usually short video excerpts, as long as their total length is under 30 seconds.
Japan has no fair use, but it is likely it will get it soon.
Imagine if game companies took this attitude towards reviews...
I was under the impression that coypright laws are subject to international treaty, which should extend fair use into Japan.
I hereby request to create and spread as much fanart as possible from these shows especially on public hosting sites. Flood the web... no wait... they aim for THAT?
as for now, i know of no such international treaty. it's biggy media (and other) companies that lobby their respective governments to represent their viewpoints in wipo/wto/etc. conventions. those conventions in turn can help the governments reach consent and agree to mutual obligations, which are supposed to be cast in national law at a later time.
unfortunately, as the big mass has little to say in this (democracy? my arse.), "fair use" and similar basic rights are usually not discussed much, as there are "more important matters".
japan is especially far behind, because of their liberalised industry-centric government. in the eu, there is the concept of artistic merit, and the usa has an explicit fair use act.
japan is both a very modern and a very traditional country. but you might be very right about them implementing fair use laws soon.
To the Jap. It is all about business.
"Screw the customers. If it is good for us, it is good for them."
Corporation tactics.
Turn your back to the people making free advertisement and promoting your work, ignore the whole culture that actually makes animes sucessful will ya?
Let's see where this will lead.
banckrupcy?
+Pts.
Leads to Failimation and Crunchyroll.......
This will lead them to reduce the demands of producers of Gundam on what "Gundam" "should be".
Yeah let em crumble. Let it buuurnn.
Yet again, we see stupid people doing stupid things...they seem to want to punish not only the fans, but also themselves...hey, two birds with one stone, I guess...
"If your works are that precious to you, why don’t you stop broadcasting them on TV and selling the DVDs, and just exhibit them in an art gallery?”
He totally owned Sunrises balls with that.
Might work if it's all on par with the image accompanying this article ;)
But really.. what are they trying to archieve? Kill off free promotion in hopes of getting visitors to their own page?
Well yay... a whole 5MB, I got 'fanart' pgn's of over 50MB.
They obviously want it on their servers so they can freely delete anything they don't like, as Kadokawa do with YouTube.
No way. People who view them in a gallery might remember them when they exit. They need to be exhibited in a special room with an MiB-style neuraliser light flashing into your eyes at the end of every showing.
These companies evidently have so much spare cash lying around that they want to waste it by suing fansites. Rather,they should think about investing their money in their production quality where they might make some money, rather than pissing it away for nothing. Fools.
To be honest, I somehow doubt they'll actually sue any sites. This seems to be more along the lines of a scare tactic.
"HURRDURR CEASE AND DESIST!!!11"
"How about I just ignore you and your letter?"
"... >:("
First intelligent thing I've read in this entire thread.
I see acts like that, as the same as burning money. Destroy free advertise, destroy fan artworks, and finally destroy yourselves.
If this is true then deviantart.com is going to get raped.
Being in America it'd be a lot harder for them. Pixiv on the other hand...
Fuck Sunrise
The next topic made here was Akikan fanart.
GG Artefact.
lol! Next on, Sankaku Complex has been sued.
It's like the middle finger to the fans that love drawing.
They should also forbid discussion of said anime, after all, we're talking about THEIR copyrighted characters.
So what this means is that you have to go to Sunrise/Lantis and ask nicely to get them to send me some production art.
Well, good luck stopping internet distribution...
Well it can actually happen THIS time suprisingly you do know even in the states of Congress even internationally did pass a law Pro-IP laws act it's only a matter of time. It's alot different than the Anti-piracy act, and it's combine with it. You shouldn't be excited for it. Since it does cost $250 billion in revenues alone in the U.S., common sense of course they're gonna act on it. "CHANGE HAS COME"...sigh
Conspiracy note: Corporates has already sent a *special* viruses in sankaku. Iono yesterday was suspicious when there was some argument on a certain anime. There were 2 blank images on search front page yesterday(maybe?), the blanks didn't load, I think something happened. That "IP#" address in a some article was just a zombie and for what things can come. In their subtle notes, either pay $150,000 fine OR get your computer wiped, if you don't obey the law.
Another plot, "korean?" snitched to FEDS+Corporation?
Reference about Pro-IP act:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/27/0255223&from=rss
What? I don't mind conspiracies (they happen a lot after all), but I don't really understand your point?
Reminds me of Funimation and their holy crusade against fansubs.
'facepalm'
They even removed my video on Youtube of a Rayearth parody theatre from Brazil... @_@;
Fuck Funimation~!!!
Hey, I wonder WHY Funimation would be so awfully mean as to wage a holy crusade against fansubs -- I guess it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the share price of (parent company) Navarre has gone from $18 to .50 cents in the past few years. A drop of over 97 percent, sports fans. Yeah, those innocent fansubbers don't hurt the market for anime, why should they stop? And if they completely kill off all anime production, having eliminated any chance of profitability, how could that be the fault of those poor maligned fansubbers?
ouch someone just got dropping into boiling hot water
Yamakan shows no mercy
Fan art?
I dont even know you!!
Utter nonsense, I remember way back when Code Geass and Gurren Lagann screencaps were spammed on /a/ every fucking day, it finally piqued my curiosity enough to watch them both.
Of course, I deeply regret watching one. I'll let you decide which, but that is not the point, if it wasn't for screencaps, that is one less viewer, and I am positive I can't be the only one who has been persuaded to watch something because of caps.
Being that draconic is never good when you consider it'll hurt the companies's bottom line in the long run. Plus the cost of litigation in trying to sue not just all the offending websites, but also millions of fans posting their own Oekaki.
Idiots.
So does that mean they are going to storm into Anime conventions strip anyone who cosplays as one of their characters?
Wow. You know I got into several anime series by looking at people's fanart, and actually bought the DVDs etc. While I can somewhat understand screencaps, taking down fanart is just ridiculous. I don't see the profit or gain from doing such a thing.
You guys FINALLY see why ZUN was so AGAINST his stuff getting COMMERCIALIZE?!?! YA this ONE of em. You guys BETTER THANK ZUN for what he did+address about, on his blog.
I fail to see the correlation between commercialization and Sunrise being a douche.
So do I. Look at Gainax, Kadokawa, and GDH for examples of companies who are generally friendly to the fan sphere. On the converse, you can find plenty of crazies in the fan sphere too...
Gainax, Kadokawa, and GDH are only dragging their feet. Because they don't have a lot of "big" guarantee hits right now. If they do have "guarantees" they would be on the same nice boat as Lantis and Sunrise.
Actually they are since they've all had music produced by Lantis at one time or another.
Well recently doujin was highly on the rise surpassing that of commercialization, DRAWINGS, story,ideas,style ++PLUS profits. There was one particular person that help skyrised doujins in it's glory"Zenith" for everyone that drew at event, even the elementary kids that made a doujin sold out. But the corporations didn't settle it well. Acts of sabotage, Sunshine creation 43 and the other previous doujin event that was address here, is obviously self-evident. Of the hidden so called "WAR".
If you the author once you submit yourself into wanted to have yourself commercialize for anime . You probably have absolutely have no control over it. Distribution, what you the author can and can't draw,quid pro quo(s), etc. They can purposely sabotage the artwork/story that you drew for serveral years+, that you work so hard on, and if they don't like you, or "You're too HIGH you need to be Hammer down" principal. Anime politics, they can destroy you just like that.
I just got a message that I was posting too much and too fast. Am I? I'm sorry.
Um, no. Actually, I don't. Besides the correlation to Zun being a dipshit and Lantis and Sunrise being dipshits....
Hey! ZUN completely different than Lantis and Sunrise. WHY?! Lets say one BIG anime company decided drew an entire series of Touhou, without Zun's consent. BUT After they do that and broadcast they THAN decide to PULL A STUNT WHAT LANTIS and SUNRISE did WITHOUT ZUN's consent. UNDERSTAND?!?! Zun still wants he's stuff to be doujinize, so people can still make doujin. While Lantis and Sunrise WANTS THE WHOLE THING BE TAKEN DOWN ALL TOGETHER. GET IT?!
I lost you at Hey!
Learn the difference between "than" and "then".
My exact first thoughts. Good to see I'm not alone.
God bless ZUN.
Yes, cut your best means of free advertising. Real productive.
LOL @ owning Sunrise's balls.
Artefact: It is Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo, not Uchuu.
Fixing, thanks.
You know what? These things happen all the time, they still can't do shit to us... these companies can continue sucking their own cocks and having anal with their moms for all I care... they should, if not, I think I'll kill them myself... they take things too far... and you know what the saddest part is? They're not actually doing this because we breached any law (cause we didn't) they are just looking for excuses to sue people, and get some more cash to stuff in their asses, and get a new car...
Oops a little error there... it should say they should die... not they should, if not
Sorry...
They have no legal grounds to sue.
This site would easily fall under the "Fair Use'
Seriously why are companies spending thousands of dollars on useless lawyers? They are killing themselves. They have no one to blame but themselves.
They destroy their own credibility and fan base and spend thousands of dollars doing so and then they feel we HAVE to buy their product. "WOE IS ME" mentality will get them no where.
Agreed... never thought about the whole lawyer angle...
I think this is hilarious.
Code Geass thrived off of screencaps and fanart. Sunrise is truly a laughable group of tarts.
The fanart bit seems more than just "legally dubious". People are selling what amounts to fanart at Comiket and it's not like the police bust the place each year.
Admittedly, fanart counts as a copyright violation here in the US...
Just look at the news about sunshine creation 43. If it's not police, it's by sure a underhanded tactic and apparently pretty effective one too.
Just look.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/01/19/sunshine-creation-43-cancelled-after-huge-virus-leak/
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/09/27/doujin-event-cancelled-by-threat/
And another one was an old lady right? It's somewhere around the sankaku articles.
Wait, something doesn't add up here. Lantis is a music company so why would they be sending cease & desist letters about images in anime which they have been contracted to do music for?
What those shows all have in common by the way are that they are shows which Lantis is producing the music for that have aired this season. Some are Brains Base, some are Kyoto Animation and a couple are Sunrise. It strikes me as more then a little odd that these three animation studios that all have their own assorted parent companies would give a music company like Lantis permission to enforcement copyright infringement. Are you absolutely certain this isn't just about music?
Just as Sony is only music, which is not. As Microsoft which is software only, which is not. Lantis is the same thing like that, Lantis is a media enterprise.
Those company did "officially" sign contracts with each other thats why. Of course they can enforce copyright infringements. You can't have commercial anime without music even if you are deaf.
One conspiracy animating company lap around each and the several other ways. A few anime studio will to be the bad cop and the others are charading to be good cop. But the bad cops digs in of the profits good cop. While the bads cops does quality works of the behind the good cop. And it gets more complicated more when they want the popular music involve. But it relates to what your saying.
I had considered the possibility among many others, but that means that Lantis crackdown on screenshots would extend to many many other anime. Here is a list of what you would technically not allowed to post a screenshot or fanart of anymore:
http://lantis.jp/release/#top
One thing I find amusing about all of this though is that it possibly marks the first time in anime history that anybody has ever speculated that a Kyoani series is being protected because of poor production values. lol. I mean Akikan and Asu No Yoichi sure, but Sora Kake Girl and Sora Wo Miageru Shoujo? Kurokami lies somewhere in the medicore category. Anyway, something tells me Artefact is stirring the pot again on a number of levels.
Please read the original source. This article is basically faithful to it. The usual disclaimers apply, which is why you see "apparently". However, the news did get picked up by larger sites, so the provenance is good.
And the speculation of which exactly are the "bomb victim" anime from the list is up to the observer - I was mainly pointing to Akikan and Kurokami. I believe Sore Kake also had an abysmal OP...
And it's not like Kadokawa is any more enlightened if Lantis has indeed been given the authority to pursue copyright infringement cases as this would mean that Lantis' legal recourse would extend to among other franchises, Haruhi, Keroro Gunsou and Lucky Star. And it goes further on from there. Lantis has ties with almost every animation company in the business and has investments in all of their works too so if they continue as they are then fair use of screenshots for anime in general is in jeopardy.
Luckily I don't think that's going to be the case as they are simply a music company and as such should only have copyright on their side in the case of music.
how dumb... What about the ones who can't understand their Japanese website... They should be thankful that they have lots of fans... And so I continue buying pirated dvds... :D
man that's really retarded... they are just gonna burn themselves pretty badly with this crap.
hopefully they won't start cracking down on cosplays as well, or I'm gonna be pretty pissed...
Sunrise and Lantis are starting to piss me off with this antics of theirs. The fans are what's keeping the market of anime alive and now they're trying to kill it.
To hell with that!
Regardless of what is the norm, using copyrighted material without permission is illegal.
No it's not. First of all, such thing as screen caps and fan art are clearly protected by fair use doctrine.
Second, to piss of fans - that is a great way of driving dvd sales DOWN
Seriously, do these companies not see how fanart can be beneficial to their sales? *facepalm* You have people who are willing to put in their own time to advertise your series. And how much can doujinshi circles and fanartists make off their work any way? I can't imagine it'd be big enough to make a dent in anything.
Ahaha oh wow. Thanks a lot for destroying the fanbase.
There will be a time when we are not allowed to tell a friend about a movie we saw because of copy right... "the picture you remember is ours you are not allowed to use it and have to delete it from your mind!"
These companies doesn't know that the majority of the popularity that their get came from the Internet...
I guess they won't notice it since they'll be busy counting their money and filing C&D papers...
"Exceptions:
On our ISP we offer 5mb user homepages, wherein you may publish what you have made yourself."
Oh LOL Bandai...
Nice marketing of your web hosting service >.>
is this letter a C&D notice or a marketing gimmick?
if screencaps and artworks be remove then,the major outcome of this be likewise,doomed to extinction.Less exposure,less sales.Many old and upcoming new fans out there may difficult to see which is a good anime or bad anime.
If people honestly think they are going to enforce this then the jokes on them, not on companies like Lantis and Sunrise. If we push the panic button every time some company sends a C&D letter then that means their tactics are working.
Personally though I'd like to see the original source for this letter (not the 2ch link, the original source) as well as who was supposed to have received it. It kind of helps to know these things if we are going to evaluate the situation. I mean before automatically blaming the company. For all we know this person could have been uploading material that is legitimately protected under Japanese copyright law.
Some would say their tactics are little more than legal terrorism and deserve to be exposed.
Lantis maybe, Sunrise, not really, especially since they haven't actually done anything in this case. If you expose them though you might as well devote time to exposing every company that is anal about copyright infringement. Toho is a pretty good place to start as the copyright bully to end all copyright bullies.
They once sued a guy for having a site called Davezilla because they claimed he was infringing on the Godzilla copyright.
http://grep.law.harvard.edu/articles/02/08/12/1821216.shtml
My point is that this is nothing new in terms of Japanese companies being obnoxious with their copyright priviliges. It's been this way for a long time and it's going to remain that way in the future so there is really no reason to get so extra irate in this case. Especially when one of the companies you brought up didn't actually demand removal of anime screen caps at all.
I'm afraid I would be here all day... I hope this is an acceptable start?
FAIL... sif u wouldn't want free publicity.......
i can see the logic .... no fanart = no fansites = "moar" fans
....agreeably some fanart is so crap that it reminds me of the "we didn't ruin the internet" song
in respects that the nets is now fulla trash
I think it's important again to note that Lantis sent the letter, not Sunrise. That text is actually quoted directly from their homepage and is purely passive in nature.
I also think I should point out that the Sunrise hompage actually says that you cannot create fanart or fanfiction only if Sunrise actually says it's not permitted. Too my knowledge they have never done such a thing and it's simply a reserved right on the part of them being the original creator of a work.
Kind of like how they reserve the right to sue people they catch distruting their works illegally. Technically all of us are already breaking the law anyway when we watch fansubs and yet they aren't suing people left and right so I don't see what any of this adds to the current state of affairs in the Japanese blogging world other then Lantis apparently happened to send a C&D to somebody, somewhere at some time. We're not exactly in a position to judge.
This need tag [just before the end of Sunrise]
Except they've had this same policy posted on their website since at least 2005 and probably a lot further back then that. The only difference is it's being quoted in English now. Hardly going to be the end of this company
Getting rid of Fanart? have fun trying ;)
bitches don't know about my US fair use laws
Brb, gonna make some MSpaint fanart and post it on the internet.
let them do what they want and see what will happen to them when fans abort their work. Most of the people who buys anime are often looking for info first than buy randomly. Screen caps and fanarts are a good example of advertising their merchandise but they want to ruin it and the effect is ruining their asses!
Good god people don't read anything people say to them anymore on the internet do they?
I figure I'm just going to keep pointing out that the C&D letter was sent by Lantis and not Sunrise and that the fanart thing refers to a passive statement posted on Sunrise's homepage that reads that fanart is not okay in the case that Sunrise has not permitted it (which I haven't seen them do) until it finally sinks in. That way eventually somebody is going to read it (if perhaps by accident) and figure out what's actually going on.
But as everyone knows Sunrise are the least tolerant of all these companies?
Any specific reason why you would assume that everyone "knows" this? Toei can be pretty troublesome too along with Kadokawa and GDH. In fact I've seen more videos removed from youtube by GDH then any other anime concern out there. Sunrise is primarily anal about the usage of Gundam images since it's there flagship franchise, but that's generally been about it.
If you ask me Lantis is the only one that has proven themselves to be a villain in this particluar case. That quote about Sunrise's image policies is old as hell and hardly enforced even on their own soil. In fact that site you linked me where you seem to get a lot of your stories from has loads upon loads of screencaps, some even stolen from Sunrise's own webpage and it's still going on unharassed. Hell they even have pictures of articles within Newtype Magazine which is a massive copyright infringment in any country.
Because they are the most persistent in removing material they claim infringes their rights.
And nobody said they were mounting a general campaign; they actions are certainly a mystery. The site in question by the way is just a 2ch matome, and so I'm not sure really counts as independently publishing in the same way a blog might, though I wouldn't argue the case.
Wad bout cosplay pics?
soon they'll be . . soon . . .
Like they can stop whole Internet fan community all over the world. I don't think so. At least we will have to use P2P network.
dumbass probably asking war from doujin people,fansubber,blogger ,crazy fan and h4x0r , dont they ever thought that when people post their shit on the internet it will get it advertise and promote it more to people
Oh, I know! Kaede Kimura from SZS is the new lawyer of Lantis and Sunrise... and of course, she gonna sue!!
Seems that we gonna need Phoenix Wright here...
It's like they're saying don't watch our shows... cause fan art are like "free" advertisements, depending on how many fan art there is on the net shows how many enjoyed the show...
The hell? Go bomb Comicket or something. Morons.
Normally I'm happy to comply with a company's will, but this is ridiculous. Fanart? Yes, because looking at someone's Geass fanart or shitty yaoi doujinshi = DAMN I CANT WATCH THOSE DVDs NOW.
no ones going to give a fuck sunrise
Okay, they sure want themselves to be turned into @#$%&
They have a real esteem problem, I mean, they're like "Kill me, just kill me now and I'll be happy" with all this thing.
Sora o Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai? Munto TV? What?
I thought that it was KyoAny's Original production! What do Lantis or Sunrise have to do with that one? :S
thats what I want to know too ;_;
They just lost a valuable customer. To hell with you, Sunrise. Your studio is no longer credible, except for the directors of various anime.
I have a theory... Maybe the creators of Code Geass and these other series are homophobic? The only conceivable notion I can come up with is that they don't want images of their precious suzaku being violated posted for all to see. Maybe the president of the company ran across some particularly vile fanart and therefore has a misguided notion of what the majority of it is. Otherwise, they're just being plain crazy! (points to all of the good arguments prior to this one)