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Tokyopop's Manga Pilot Pact Signs Away Legal Rights
Veteran comic creator and onetime Gainax employee Lea Hernandez pointed out that Tokyopop's new Shining Stars Manga Pilot Program uses a pact that dictates that aspiring artists and creators "agree to give up any 'moral rights' they might have." "Moral rights" (droit moral in French) is a legal concept for a creator's rights to be credited for a work and the rights to control the future direction of the work. Authors can maintain their moral rights even if they signed away the economic rights to the work. However, legislation in the United States and other countries dictate that creators can waive their moral rights as well. In the Manga Pilot Program, creators submit "pilots," or comic shorts 24-36 pages in length, that Tokyopop posts online for reader feedback and possible expansion as a full-length title.
Scott Pilgrim comic creator Bryan Lee O'Malley notes that the current version of the pact does not list the fee paid to the creator until after Tokoypop accepts the pilot, and dictates that Tokyopop can ask for a second pilot installment for another fee of the same undisclosed amount. The pact also states that creators give Tokyopop "the right to reformat, adapt, and modify the Manga Pilot for iManga, [Tokyopop's] motion graphics video format, as well as for other ways that [Tokyopop] may change it in order to display, print, and exhibit it." As part of the relinquishing of moral rights, Tokoypop may not credit a creator's name in part or in full "when the space available or the conventions of a format won't permit it or if it would have to be too small to read (for example, when the Manga Pilot is viewed on mobile phones)."
Tokyopop released a statement that emphasizes that it does not retain rights to a manga pilot "that doesn't pan out" after the one-year Exclusive Period. In this scenario, Tokyopop says it will "have no stake" if the creator were to take the same pilot and land a deal with another company. However, Tokyopop also acknowledges that it can still adapt the existing pages of the pilot for other media even after the Exclusive Period ends. Contracts for creators vary widely in the North American comic industry, with some dictating that creators relinquish all rights on a work-for-hire basis and others giving creators complete control over their works.
In Tokyopop's other program for aspiring creators, Rising Stars of Manga, the entry form dictates that winners grants TOKYOPOP "a worldwide, royalty-free, exclusive right and license, but not an obligation, to use, reproduce, publish, distribute, and display the winning submission and his or her name, address, and other personal information (in whole or in part) in any media now or hereafter known and in perpetuity…."
Chris Oarr, the sales and marketing representative of the North American distributor A.D. Vision, has told the Ain't It Cool News website that the ADV Manga division is still active and will ship the long-delayed later volumes of Yotsuba&! and other manga. ADV Manga originally slated the sixth volume for Yotsuba&! for February 29, but the last volume to actually be printed and released was the fifth one last October. Oarr expressed hope that ADV can schedule new volumes of Yotsuba&!, Gunslinger Girl, and Cromartie High School "soon." Oarr added that the schedules changes were due to ADV "facing a time where we have to concentrate on our core business, which is anime."
FUNimation Entertainment has partnered with Red Planet Media to begin distributing its shows via digital download to video-capable cellular phones. Episodes of Funimation's MoonPhase and Galaxy Railways are currently available for purchase via Red Planet's Jump In Mobile service. The episodes are available at 99 cents each, but limited to customers of AT&T Wireless. This will be the first step in an ongoing process, and the company plans to offer entire full seasons of its anime series via the service, while expanding it to other wireless providers as well.
Funimation has been a leader in anime digital distribution via Apple's iTunes, Microsoft's Zune and XBox Live, as well as its own website. Since late in 2006, ADV Films has been offering both clips from many of its anime to Sprint customers via Zoovision.
Kotooshu, who I reported about further down the page has become the first European sumo wrestler to win the Emperor's Cup.
Kotooshu is the seventh gaijin in memory to win a sumo title. Here is the article from my source, who probably took it from another source:
“I’m at a loss for words, but I’m glad I finally won a title,” Kotooshu told NHK. “I forgot all about yesterday and just concentrated on today. Winning leaves me full of emotions.”
Winning the title, besides also making him the seventh foreign-born champion, marks a miraculous turnaround for the 25-year-old, who until this basho failed to live up to the promise he displayed in 2005 when he earned the fastest-ever promotion to ozeki (only 19 tournaments) on the back of three runnerup performances.
Kotooshu, whose real name is Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov, suffered a series of knee injuries that limited his mobility and repeatedly took him out of contention. He entered this tournament with his rank in doubt for the second time this year and had not had more than 10 wins since his promotion to ozeki.
But instead of demotion, Kotooshu went on a 12-day rampage that included consecutive victories over the yokozuna. There was a wobble on Friday when he lost to No. 4 maegashira Aminishiki, but the ozeki put that behind him on Saturday by crushing out Ama (9-5).
With his father Stefan watching pensively from a box seat, Kotooshu showed the decisiveness he had lacked against Aminishiki. Leading off with a right-hand slap to Ama’s head, he followed up with a double-armed embrace of the sekiwake. Ama tried a neck throw that sent both slamming to the ground outside the ring, but it was Kotooshu who landed last.
The ozeki managed to contain his emotions long enough to take his winnings, serve the water to the next man up and walk down the aisle to his waiting stablemaster, Sadogatake.
His father was less stoic, waving a small Bulgarian flag, taking a bow from the roaring crowd and shaking every hand he saw.
“I wasn’t too concerned about [my his presence],” said Kotooshu, who had time while he waited ringside to spot his father playing to the crowd. “I just wanted to win.
“It’s taken me 5-1/2 years [since joining sumo]. Looking back, I can’t believe I’ve been here in Japan so long. I’ve had my ups and downs and lots of knee injuries, but this tournament I’ve been in great condition.”
According to a random poll taken between the 27th of March and the 3rd of April 2008, One Piece ranks as one of the best manga as far as emotion, making people want to cry and readership recommendation.
The pirate manga series plays tag with the basketball manga Slam Dunk for top answers. Participants were free to choose any manga they wished. Females tended to gravitate towards One Piece than males, though there was a conciderable amount of support from both genders.
New York City's Film Society of Lincoln Center will be screening the films of "vanguard anime director" Satoshi Kon, from June 27 to July 1. The director will be coming to New York for the screening. Paprika, one of Kon's latest ventures, has recently been named to the 100 Best Movies list by the Japanese edition of Newtype magazine. This will be the man's third trip to the United States.
This time, the scene is in Washington state. One middle school student has been expelled and three others have been disciplined over writing fifty names in their own "Death Note". Names included fellow classmates, a teacher, President Bush, Paris Hilton and various other celebrities. Another student found the book on the floor and gave it to a teacher, where it went downhill from there.
The school's district superintendent said that such a book is inappropriate for school, but declined to say that books like these will be banned. A father of one student who was suspended for three days said that the book was an outlet for frustration from about two years of bullying.
There were at least three previous incidents in the United States where school officials linked Death Note directly to students being disciplined. One high school senior in Richmond, Virginia was suspended in December over a list of his classmates' names that the school principal linked to Death Note. A middle school student in Hartsville, South Carolina was "removed" from school over a "Death Note" notebook in March. In Gadsden, Alabama, two sixth-grade students were arrested in April for a notebook that allegedly listed their school staff and fellow students in a manner similar to the Death Note anime series.
This is intriguing to me, being as most of these incidents have been involving middle-school students. It seems to me like the series has a frighteningly high appeal to kids younger than the original target audience, with no one to tell them that imitation is not the best thing in the world. Now I realize I'm probably not the best person to write about this, but someone really needs to draw the line somewhere. These kids are going to end up ruining comic books and manga for all their peers by doing this sort of thing. I understand that some Death Note fans are just that, fans, but the kids who only show their allegiances through their outward appearances and actions, they're making it a losing battle.
