Sunrise demands removal of fanart, screencaps etc.

[xgraphy.livejournal.com]

Not exactly Code Geass related, but Sunrise. Still an interesting read though.

Though the article is safe, the website and images is NSFW; wait till you get home guys.

I understand they have the right to 'protect' their work, but ugh... v__v (Though I do agree on the banning of KuroKami...)

Comments

[glenngunnerzero.livejournal.com]

Typical corporate bullshit.

In before code_geass.

[xgraphy.livejournal.com]

Hopefully won't happen o___o

[glenngunnerzero.livejournal.com]

Besides home made shoops and whoops.

I generally use Screencaps as a means to judge animation style and to check highly anticipation stillshots on series or episodes I havn't seen yet. Watching something like the last episode of the first season of Higurashi after the buildup of Rena fighting K1 on the roofup was slightly disappointing.

Seeing Lelouch and Suzaku at each other's throat in the last episode of R1 is probably one of those things I may keep on replay in a DVD, But my disappointment in R2 is not an exaggeration, so if they're trying to make money I can see why they wouldn't want people to look at something before they buy it, especially if they havn't seen it before.

However this isn't unexpected from Sunrise.

[karinablue-rose.livejournal.com]

Seems to me Sunrise doesn't appreciate the its fans.It seems to me like this is the almighty Yen speaking.Greedy corporate bullshit!

[uwaaaah.livejournal.com]

Does this mean Sunrise will go on an LJ-style wipe-everything-BAD-off-the-face-of-the-Internet regime?

Because I'd reeeaaaally like to avoid getting sued for having capped the last 8 or so episodes of R2.

[glenngunnerzero.livejournal.com]

I doubt it, it's being hosted by Livejournal through. They'll be the one's responsible, and most likely just delete your journal or something. But most likely as long as it's not on a Google search then I don't think they even know about your caps.

[apapazukamori.livejournal.com]

So you can only put up fan works on Sunrise-sponsored pages. Yeah, see how well that worked for LucasArts.

[chirigami.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had the strangest dream where I went on my LJ and all my Code Geass icons were taken off because of like Sunrise being all meh about copyright issues. Weeeeeird ~

I don't understand the big deal about screenshots, like the article says, in blogs and stuff it shows the work and allows viewers a chance to see if they'd like to watch it. They're going to be hurting their revenue by doing this.
With the fanart, I kind of wonder if they're going to start going after those of us who sell our art at conventions and whatnot. We're doomed D:

[madhatterpan.livejournal.com]

...I might be a terrible person, but I laughed at the idea of Sunrise creating a squad of people to /deal/ with this... Decked up as Black Knights, they'd go from con to con, to deal with this fanart crisis.

[demyx.livejournal.com]

Does this even affect the western part of fandom? I dunno, I know the Kingdom Hearts fandom in Japan is more or less underground due to Disney being jerks, but Western fans more or less don't get harassed for drawing stuff due to "fair use" and all that jazz. But I have no idea, honestly.

Then again, I doubt this would affect fandom either way other than putting up passwords for websites like the KH Japanese fandom has done. I wonder how CLAMP feels about this (I know they just designed the characters, but considering their background... I'd be a little bit insulted).

[semeru.livejournal.com]

You've brought up an interesting issue. Yes, what about CLAMP ladies? Something is telling me that they will be pretty pissed off.

[semeru.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm using this icon of malice perpense.

Killing fandom, Sunrise? Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs? Stupid, Sunrise, oh so stupid.

Or that's maybe the way to deal with the economic crisis? So many vacancies for fansites-controllers...

[gully-moe.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Not even fanfiction? FAN FICTION?

There is a problem and there are thousands of fans that do this. Forget sharing screen caps. That I can understand, but they don't even want fans to share fan art, fan fiction or even graphics?

So in all technically I'm using illegal icons?

That is bull. It takes out the fun in fandom. In we can't be allowed to do this, then how can a fan enjoy a series besides just watching it and talking about it? How can one express their love for a series without having to use avatars, etc?

I mean really, how in the hell does this hurt their company?

And what about cosplay pictures?

[kairi-hearts.livejournal.com]

I lol'd when I saw this a few days ago.
First they blame torrents and such for the low ratings and now this...
Sunrise is really desperate.

[kaorutsukiko.livejournal.com]

*puts on a Geass icon*

I lol'd. I think it will be one of those 'rules' that doesn't last that much. and it will be soon taken down after people complain too much. Or won't even be actually applied, maybe.
Anyway, I think it's kinda of impossible for them to control the whole internet, since there's A LOT of people who takes screencaps, draws, writes, cosplays and whatever they want to remove. Good luck if they will go around the whole internet removing all of these, since I'm 99% sure that someone will probably just post those things up again as soon as they're taken down.

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[spleener.livejournal.com]

Highly doubt they're going to go through the jackassery of enforcing this edict overseas.

So we should do our duty and taunt them from across the ocean like so:





















THAT'S RIGHT SUNRISE

ALL OF IT IS YOUR SHIT

WHATCHA GONNA DO ABOUT IT, MOTHERFUCKERS?

Re: (USER WAS V& FOR THIS POST)

[spleener.livejournal.com]

(Except Waldo, pretty sure you don't own the copyright to him.)

[raane.livejournal.com]

That...is a pretty badly written cease-and-desist letter. How do we know it's for real?

Edit: Additionally, Clause 1 Paragraph 23 (which I assume is in Section 101 in the "Copyright Act") is a definition, not a law. And it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the images in question anyway. Either Sunrise can't afford a decent lawyer or this is a hoax. >.>

Edit again: What was I thinking, there's no way Clause 1 paragraph 23 makes a lick of sense. What section? Where's the rest of the cite?? I'm definitely calling hoax.

[aya-kari.livejournal.com]

what
Poor Sakou Yukie has been fired. She drew fanarts.

[kanami-yuuta.livejournal.com]

WHA... no screencaps? no fan art? no DOUJINSHI?????

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I'll die without my daily dosis of doujinshis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *cries*

I hope this issue is not so serious

[fisha-onigiri.livejournal.com]

It's the first time I'm glad Geass is over.

Because for deleting geass-realted things is far too late

[rurushuu.livejournal.com]

I'm so hating sunrise for making such shitty policy (`__´)

[jukebox-hero.livejournal.com]

Yeah, good luck with that, Sunrise. Big internet is big.

[rainbow-cnxn.livejournal.com]

What, don't want me to show off your glorious R2 art quality? Icon very much related.

[koyuki-azumaya.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeaaaaaah.... Good luck with that, Sunrise.

[phantasiagirl.livejournal.com]

I would put up one of my Gino icons but this suits much better. >:/
GG Sunrise.

D:

Does this mean that sites like pixiv are going to be obliterated?

[snoozy.livejournal.com]

I would put up one of my Gino icons but this suits much better. >:/

B-but that would make you a criminal according to copyright laws. ;__;

{srsly, this is so much bull i am loling and facepalming at the same time}

[snoozy.livejournal.com]

This is bull. Super bull. Extraordinary bull. Even if it IS Sunrise, i never expected that much bull. This one's on you cupids of SR. :x

[cecaniah.livejournal.com]

Nice... -sarcasm-

Which fucktard decided this now? is everyone in Sunrise so fucked that they all agree with this?

First goes episodes, then goes the music, then the AMVs, NOW THIS!!!!

This is fucked. I'd like to see them try. No one will abide by this or even acknowledge it. There is no fucking way in hell that I'd EVER abide by this!!! They would have to hunt me down and slaughter me to stop me!

Fan art helps the series, not destroys it!

The fans will absolutely hate this.

They don't have access to everything like that. All they can probably do is tell them that they don't like it. They can't hack every site and remove everything.

-goes to angrily rant and swear elsewheres-

Geez, if fucked up laws like this keep popping up, In a few years it will be illegal to breathe

[ctrl-a.livejournal.com]

Copyright is hardly a brand new law that just "popped up", and it worked well for a long time. It probably needs a lot of revision to deal with changes in the past 10-20 years, including the internet, but it addresses real concerns about artists who want to have control over their creations and be able to profit from them.

"You can't stop me!" hardly means "I'm right and you're wrong." Neither side wants to start a hacking war, and both sides want Sunrise to keep producing good, profitable content. I think it'd be more productive if the fans were a little more willing to respect what Sunrise is worried about, and Sunrise is a little more willing to give fans some freedom. *shrug* In a perfect world, with sunshine and rainbows everyday...

I often hear the "fan art/fiction helps the series" line, and I generally agree, but here's a nice simple example of how it could hurt. And I actually think this pattern is really common: Guy sees SuzaLulu fan art and decides not to watch Code Geass because "Eww, this show is GAY!" I can't tell you how many perfectly straight series end up completely ignored by male audiences because it happens to have a strong fujoshi following that has skewed the perception of the male relationships in the show. (Some shows, like Gundam and maybe Geass, manage to survive this, but some don't, like Meine Liebe or Cluster Edge.)

[nekroskoma.livejournal.com]

this amount of stupid is unbearable

[piledriver.livejournal.com]

I only have one word: ಠ_ಠ

No seriously, WTH are they thinking?