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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Title 17
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US Code, Title 17, all 200+ pages of it. Not an easy thing to go through, considering there are amendments and everything else to keep track of.
I'm still trying to find the "legal" logic to Funimation's antics, but that may take a while. It also doesn't explain why one retailer is being targeted when other retailers are still selling the legal CDs in question, or illegal copies. I noticed both Funimation and Navarre have gone out of their way to not make a statement on the issue (while that is common during pending litigation), in this case they do themselves more damage by not explaining why they target one legit vendor over illegit ones if the claim is "protecting their distribution rights." My issue is why did Funimation change their accusation from distribution right to "Copyright infringement" when they went after Akadot's Web host? Probably because they thought they'd get more leverage crying "wolf" by claiming "unauthorised and/or pirated" products were being distributed by Akadot (It should be illegal to make false claims like that against a company in my opinion). Now, I've never shopped online, but Akadot looks to me like it's trying to do things right by the law, and the fans. I also have an issue with the "Official" US Fullmetal Alchemist web site. It lists the L'Arc~en~Ciel album "Smile", and little else, under "Soundtrack" section. I guess we anime fans are supposed to be completely stupid.
Anyway, I'm still going over the Title 17 of US Code. It's a good read, the Copyright Office web site has the whole Title and the amendments (You have to read the amandments too, because they change the language of parts of the basic Title). Take a look at it, just to see how complicated US copyright law has become.
By the time this is done, I'll be pitching legal drama based anime to studios, you know, it just might go. . .
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