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Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison
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Luminous5481 "Enemy of the State" anarchist.nexus Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus
Joined: 2025-12-23
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HiDiddlyDoodlyHo lemmy.blahaj.zone HiDiddlyDoodlyHo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-28
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This is an absolutely incredible overreach. What's next, reviews on Goodreads? Fan forums discussing the latest episode of their favorite show? Articles talking about why a property should be handled carefully due to its content? Wikipedia? All of these places make money somehow just to operate, primarily through ad placement like this person's website. Where is the line?

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borari lemmy.dbzer0.com borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-03-27
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This is an absolutely incredible overreach. What's next, reviews on Goodreads? Fan forums discussing the latest episode of their favorite show? Articles talking about why a property should be handled carefully due to its content? Wikipedia? All of these places make money somehow just to operate, primarily through ad placement like this person's website. Where is the line?

Fan-made sub translations?

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ayyy sh.itjust.works ayyy@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-06-20
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How’s that corporate boot taste?

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Bobby sh.itjust.works Bobby@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-04-03
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Fan-made sub translations?

Fan-made sub translations?

Strictly speaking they have always been illegal, it's just that nobody care because it's hard to argue for damages when an anime isn't commercially distributed in that region.

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borari lemmy.dbzer0.com borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-03-27
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Fan-made sub translations? Strictly speaking they have always been illegal, it's just that nobody care because it's hard to argue for damages when an anime isn't commercially distributed in that region.

Ah, was completely unaware that was the case. Thanks!

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weirdo_from_space sh.itjust.works weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-17
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Capitalist scum.

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raman_klogius ani.social raman_klogius@ani.social
Joined: 2024-06-22
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Samurai government at work

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lulungomeena_burbclave lemmy.dbzer0.com lulungomeena_burbclave@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-05
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Behold, an illegal fansub:

Spike dies.

Not for sale or rent, please support the commercial release.

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Luminous5481 "Enemy of the State" anarchist.nexus Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus
Joined: 2025-12-23
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Behold, an illegal fansub: Spike dies. Not for sale or rent, please support the commercial release.

ok, that's it. straight to jail.

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Kissaki lemmy.dbzer0.com Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-18
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The Godzilla article exceeded 3,000 Japanese characters in length, while the Overlord piece transcribed dialogue verbatim to the actual episode

Well, that's pretty excessive. And monetized.

It's not just summaries or plot overview or interpretation or whatever.

Maybe it'd be different if accessible and marketed as visually impaired accessibility.

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