>"A 39-year-old website administrator located in Tokyo, Japan was recently charged with violating the Copyright Act for posting “spoiler articles” containing written summaries of movie and anime plots. As reported by Asahi Shimbun, on April 16, the Tokyo District Court sentenced the man to one year and six months of prison with a suspended sentence of 4 years, and a penalty of 1 million yen (approximately $6.3k USD). The criminal complaint against the website administrator was filed back in late 2024 by Kadokawa Corporation and TOHO, the copyright holders of the works summarized on the website (source: Content Overseas Distribution Association, hereafter CODA)">"The problematic articles in question include a full summary of 2023 film Godzilla Minus One (owned by Toho) and the third season of the Overlord anime (owned by Kadokawa), which aired back in 2018. According to the prosecution, the Godzilla article was over 3,000 characters in length, explaining the plot of the film in detail from beginning to end, while the Overlord summary piece also included character names, transcribed dialogue, action, scenes, plot twists and several screenshots from the anime. Consequently, Kadokawa and Toho argued that this style of article constituted an “adaptation” of the original works, and could thus be considered copyright infringement."
>>25257316doesn't matter. the japanse have their own fucking issues, one of them being their absolutely neurotic copyright laws. they don't apply to anyone else. also this is the wrong board.
>>25257381I would say it's relevant here qua the relationship between text and image and the nature of 'adaptation'
>>25257402no
nice jacket bud
>>25257316They are born corporate suckers.I live in Japan and I've seen it all.
>>25257316can people in Japan ask AI about spoilers? can Kadokawa sue ChatGPT if so?
Reminds me of the jap who went to jail for streaming spoilers of some steins gate spin off game
>>25258020wdym?
ill never understand why they put up with this shit
>>25259364is jail even that bad for a Japanese guy? they literally die from working too much all the time
>>25257316Japanese copyright laws are fucking insane I've heard of similar shit before.
>>25258020>I live in JapanI assume by the way you worded your post, you’re not from there. I hear many have disdain for outsiders though so more power to you.
>>25257316do people really care about spoilers?
