Not satisfied with the kerfuffle he caused with his J-Comi launch remarks, mangaka Ken Akamatsu is now picking a fight with NicoNico Douga, accusing them of profiting by stealing the works of others without giving them proper compensation.
No prizes seem appropriate for those able to guess which medium Ken Akamatsu used to disseminate his inflammatory soundbites:
NicoNico Douga’s premium membership costs ¥525 a month, and they give nothing to the copyright holders whose works are illegally uploaded there. […] It’s a bit rich for them to proclaim “NicoNico Douga is finally making a profit!”
The positions of the admins and posters are different so isn’t it a bit more complicated?
If they have the consent of creators, isn’t it best for everyone for them to compensate them fairly? The way it is set now hardly seems the best way?
It should be remembered that publicity on Nico will have an indirect positive effect on the work in question.
Everyone says that, don’t they? But do they really believe it?
NicoNico’s official position is somewhat similar to that of YouTube – videos are deleted on the request of copyright holders, and there is officially distributed anime available. As with YouTube, only the JASRAC music industry mafia and giant publishers with intimidating armies of lawyers receive anything back from Nico.
A recent comment on 2ch to the effect that “Why is it celebs self-destruct whenever they get on Twitter?” seems particularly pertinent here, the validity of Akamatsu’s point notwithstanding.
unrelated, but this drives me nuts. you see how the girl with the brown hair is holding the towel over her chest? there is a line on her boob. what the hell is it?
this has bothered me for YEARS, i can’t figure out what that line is supposed to be.
This is called the depth effect.
A boob always hides another one.
I agree with Ken Akamatsu here. I mean hell it should be discerning that works of others are illegally posted up on nico. I would too if i were in his shoes.
But he is jumping the gun because maybe Nico Nico Douga has as good safeguard against illegal uploads. If not then well… I dunno waht to say.
To right. I mean it’s okay to “remix” stuff. But when you go comercial with it, and especially when you do it big times, you should have the original creator/artist have his share. After all the character are only known to be Moe/Kawaii because of the anime that is behind it. In this case Love Hina. Naru Narusegawa is no was cute just from her looks but if you watched the series you start liking the character and thus it can be used for H stuff.
Manga artist + any hindrance to success = yell at the internet.
They do have a reason to be upset though.
As a little sidenote: Youtube gives money to all ‘youtube partners’. Many of those are single people, no large-lawyer companies.
And they usually make enough to live off of it to some degree.
FOR THE LAST TIME! He did make good money from amazon! It’s just that he didn’t know about the 24 hour delay in Amazon’s tally. That’s why he bitched and moaned untill he saw the fact a lot of people actually did buy s♥♥t. He even issued an apology in his blog. He deemed the site to be a success.
But once again, people refuse to keep them self updated on a story.