DragonBoxZTheMovies wrote:Argh, I don't know why, but everything about this still seems fan-made, even though we know that it's real.
Raykugen wrote:*snip*
Yeah, the trailer is poorly done that it's like fan-made. All these promotions by Diamond Films are so unprofessional. Since fans in Latin America seem to like claiming that their fan creations are "official" to easily make them famous (I've seen so many fan-made DBZ videos from Latin America labeled as "official" on YouTube,) I still can't truly believe that these are actually happening even though I know they're real.
Fennekin wrote:Sorry to say, but since you don't own the copyright to the Dragon Balls, you can't really claim any ownership to it. If you added a personal touch to make it different, I would understand, but it's the Dragon Balls to the very detail. You can't claim anything since it's not legally yours to begin with.
It's not that he's claiming to be the right holder and they're infringing his copyright. I think he's just saying that it's too sloppy and unprofessional for an official distributor to use fan-made stuff for official promotions, and I do agree to it. Diamond Films is also using some official images that they obviously don't have any rights to on their facebook pages.
By the way, derivative works and their creators have their own copyrights if the works are not dead copies, so official distributors using fan-made works without permission can be illegal even if they have the copyrights to the original stuff. If fan works didn't have any copyrights, that would mean that Shueisha can publish an art book with fan works taken from Pixiv in it without asking the artists, but they actually can't.