That what copyright true objective , ripoff artists and take away their rights while those parishes get all the profits.

"Thinks would have raked more making it herself lol"

I suddenly have a lot more respect for Steven Spielberg.

Fuck you. Big corporation exploits an artist who simply didn't know better and it is her fault?

What is this shit? Next time you will say if she gets raped on a street at night it was entirely her fault too?

If the corporations had ANY amount of respect for artists this would be different, but they get away with this because stupid shit like you think it is the artist fault rather then the fucking corporation getting away with almost criminal like deals because they can.

She willingly chose to do this and deserves no more than what she agreed to. She just signed off on the contract without having any clue as to what it was for because she was "too busy." She made her bed, now she has to lay in it. Maybe next time she'll be bothered to read contracts or pay for a few hours with a lawyer before blindly signing anything.

see the film maker and distributor are owned by the same people, you have a contract with the maker, the distributor charges upwards 20 billion dollars, and you never see a penny of the percentages.

Who knows. Tomorrow they might even come to the conclusion that "pirates" are not really all that harmful after all.

You get a job that pay money, and get a hobby of something you enjoy doing.

Publishing your works on the internet is cheap enough that you can support your own manga if you have a decent job.

This is not something unique to mangakas. Generally art students in the rest of the world.

The top actors are not better actors than some unknown ones just graduating School. They just get lucky with their roles and get pushed up to the top.

Orlando Bloom, got his first role playing Legolas in LOTR. Because he got popular from the movie, he could get the overpaid jobs later.

Of course she had an option.

Heard about J.K. Rowling? She was nearly broke when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. She turned DOWN publishers because she didn't like the offers they gave her. Despite being broke at the time.