Kanzenshuu

Stop saying "the west" when you mean "this one single country in the west".

Fan art is generally allowed in the manga world to certain extent (for example Comiket wouldn't really be possible if doujinshi based on the existing series would be banned). It keeps the fans happy, and doesn't do that much harm since for example a porn parody generally isn't sold by the same numb...

*shrug* I mean there's people that think the official English dub is watchable too. You can count me in that category, i don't think it's just watchable, I think it's legitimately good. Not perfect obviously but far from one of the worst dubs ever like some people make it out to be. I like DBZA but...

*shrug* I mean there's people that think the official English dub is watchable too.

Personally, I think something involving as much effort, creativity, and talent as DBZA should count as fair use on the principle that it's using a copyrighted work to aid in creative endeavour If that was the case (which it ABSOLUTELY isn't), no dub company would ever have to license the shows they...

In an ideal world Funi/Toei and TFS would be able to openly appreciate their mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationship. But we live in the real world with copyrights, contracts, legal issues etc In an ideal world Funi would've also never gone anywhere near the franchise to begin with. But thems t...

Perhaps double standard wasn’t the right term, but it is annoying that companies can get away with pulling crap like this, and YouTube won’t say anything about it. Sure. No disagreement there. But that's a different subject entirely. To try and tie things back to my initial post, fair use seems lik...

If it had gone to court, it wouldn’t have surprised me if WB won the case. It would've surprised me, and I don't think WB would've even bothered taking this any further if the Wabbit guy had challenged their claim, because this is OBVIOUSLY parody of the exact same kind MAD and the like have been d...

That’s my point. It seems like South Park managed to win its case because it’s owned by a big company, and the person suing them was someone who made a YouTube video. But that Wabbit thing never went to court, did it? Youtube just removed it and the creator said "I don't like this but okay". Comedy...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-HmYLtnQIY Yeah, that seems like something they could've been able to defend in court had it gone there. Had it been made by some big company, I could see them protesting and WB backing down, especially if the parody had been made for a TV show or something else big. ...

There’s this (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=enRM2TifKls). The original video in question was a Bugs Bunny parody that did not use footage from any Looney Tunes cartoons, yet it got copyright claimed, and was taken down. Kinda hard to comment on that without seeing the original video, yo https://m.y...

There is a difference for sure between those two cases. I was more referring to how the YouTube copyright system works in general. It seems like content creators can get copyright claimed for doing things that aren’t too far off from what South Park did. Can you point to any Youtuber that got in le...

Of course, there do seem to be some inherent double standards to the way in which fair use is enforced, at least in the United States. A good example is this (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/south-park-wins-appeals-court-what-what-butt-334786). There's a CONSIDERABLE difference between pa...

Of course, there do seem to be some inherent double standards to the way in which fair use is enforced, at least in the United States. A good example is this (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/south-park-wins-appeals-court-what-what-butt-334786). There's a CONSIDERABLE difference between pa...

I mean we ARE talking about someone who's essentially just stealing Toei's show and dubbing it for profit, giving Toei neither compensation nor a say in the matter. They didn't profit off DBZA, at least as far as I know. I guess they did indirectly by becoming popular thanks to it. There's been som...

I mean we ARE talking about someone who's essentially just stealing Toei's show and dubbing it for profit, giving Toei neither compensation nor a say in the matter. If I was Toei, I wouldn't want to reward them for this by offering them roles and exposure in the "official dub" either.

What I'm wondering a bit is why Toriyama would even need to create a spin-off. I do not know if he had any grand creative ambitions left after Dragon Ball. He had done two hugely successful series back-to-back, for 15 years. His later, short series' are OK too, but he clearly did not look for new a...

But he's literally done that.
Multiple times, even.

Yeah, there's the bit about her living far to the west, but is that necessarily alluding to the Western world? Could it possibly just be a reference to Journey to the West ? If Dragonball had been a story about Bulma's journey back home, that would've made sense. But the location of Bulma's home in...

eeeeh...I think that's a stretch. I never got the sense that she's meant to be European. Instead, Bulma is a city girl solely meant to contrast with Goku's country bumpkin sensibilities. Think about when DB was created, around the time of the economic boom of Japan. A lot of Bulma's personality mat...