Gainax's clamp down on Eva web pages: Hypocrtic?
Invid fan
Kwok) wrote:
> - Gainax themselves, as everyone knows, started as a Fan/Otaku
> group, which did a fair amount of copying stuff in their fan days.
> It's sad to see them resort to these tactics now that they're PRO. And
> a little HYPOCRTIC.
>
>
> Some of the fans are apparently hoping to negotiate a
> guideline as to what can be reproduced on the pages. Hopefully an
> amicable arrangement can be made. But I still think it's a slap in the
> face to the loyal fans of this excellent series. It would have earned
> the honor of being the first series to have a significant real-time
> presence on the Net, but this turn of events, instead of trying to
> take advantage of fan support, has needlessly scuttled it.
I'd say that Babylon 5 has that honor (with JMS online since before the
pilot aired), but being first dosen't matter. Perhaps Gainax has gotten
too far from their roots. Or, more likely, now that they actualy have
*CONTROL* of thier work, they have become paranoid about how it's
presented. Or maybe we can blame it on AD Vision :-P
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Enrique Conty
> I find it a little disturbing that Gainax is using (from what
>I can tell) a heavy-handed approach in shutting down fan pages of
>Evangelion. All the 30+ sites have either shut down or reverted to
>text only. A couple of observations:
You mean that you can't have EVA *images* on the pages, I guess.
(I woulnd't know, I'm forced to use Lynx to acces Japanese pages,
Netscape and Mosaic keep timing out.)
They haven't shut down the text pages, I was at Wada-kun's site yesterday.
And what about Marc Hairston's Nadia page?
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> In article <4h9uv4$7...@newdelph.cig.mot.com>,
> Enrique Conty <co...@rtsg.mot.com> wrote:
> >And what about Marc Hairston's Nadia page?
> I don't think Gainax has the rights to Nadia. None of the Nadia
> merchandise mention Gainax in the copyrights--just NHK, Sogovision, and Toho.
John is correct. I had none other than Carl Macek point this out to me
(and I removed Gainax from the list of copyright holders on the Nadia page
as a result).
As for Gainax and my Nadia page, they are aware that it exists (I got a
fan letter from them last year about it ^_^), but if they ask me to take
it down, I will. So far I haven't heard anything about it.
Keeping my fingers crossed,
Marc Hairston
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Enrique Conty
>
>Yes. Since Takeda-san posted an article to fj.rec.animation saying
>something like "The image data scanned from LD or TV are on many EVA
>related pages. Fans should think more about copyrights."
># I cannot write correctly due to my awkward English skill.
No problem. I understood the message, loud and clear.
GAINAX is defending their copyrights like everyone else does, I guess.
Not a good PR move for them, but it's their right.
<sigh>
Neil Morris
co...@rtsg.mot.com "Enrique Conty" writes:
> In article <ONIZUKA.96...@lachesis.nisiq.net> oni...@nisiq.net (Kentaro
> ONIZUKA) writes:
> >
> >Yes. Since Takeda-san posted an article to fj.rec.animation saying
> >something like "The image data scanned from LD or TV are on many EVA
> >related pages. Fans should think more about copyrights."
> ># I cannot write correctly due to my awkward English skill.
>
> No problem. I understood the message, loud and clear.
>
> GAINAX is defending their copyrights like everyone else does, I guess.
> Not a good PR move for them, but it's their right.
Is it not possible that they might *have* to defend those rights?
Don't I vaguely recall something that says if you don't take reasonable
steps to defend copyright, you lose it?
(But I agree that it's a shame.)
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Neil Morris
> In article <4hjl2d$8...@victoria.pe.net>,
> Geoffrey Scott <g...@victoria.pe.net> wrote:
> >Neil Morris (ne...@linkmsd.com) wrote:
> >
> >: Don't I vaguely recall something that says if you don't take reasonable
> >: steps to defend copyright, you lose it?
>
> This is generally a misconception, unless the Japanese copyright
> laws are significantly different from US copyright laws.
Maybe it was trademark I was thinking of, then. ^_^;;
I was thinking of the way D*sn*y justified their action in that day-care
centre business.
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