John UM
The cartoonist Ishikawa Ugo recalled that he was trained by the primary school library because he was excavated from the Shueisha to the primary school, and was not cultivated by the primary school. There used to be such an experience: the editor arbitrarily cut open the manuscript he completed, deleted the whole content, and then expanded the other grid to maintain the genre of the page. He talked about it with others, but no one believed him. Until a few years ago, he and several other cartoonists mentioned that many cartoonists said that they had been treated similarly, which made him feel at ease
In addition, there is such a thing: More than 30 years ago, Ishikawa’s assistant won the award for the Newcomer Award, and the work was to be published in the magazine. However, when I got the magazine, the editor cut the original and re-spliced it. When the 16-page work was published, only half of it was left, only 8 pages. Including this assistant, everyone was surprised and laughed. And the work has been changed by the editor, and it has become better than the original
Ishikawa said that for the writer, the editor’s actions were extremely sinful; but on the contrary, his professional ability was so superb, so he later sat in a high position
(https://twitter.com/ishikawa_yougo).
According to news reports, the suspect in the Kyoto animation arson murder case, Aoba Shinji, has been out of danger, but still in the ICU treatment, it may take several months to return to a state where he can be arrested
The suspect used to call the Kyoto animation “plagiarized my novel” after the case. Kyoto Art’s attorney, Toshida, said that the Kyoto Animation Awards had received submissions from people with the same name and address in the same name as Aoba, but the submitted works did not pass the preliminary review and were not shared within the company. Lawyer Mouth is also convinced that Kyoto animation works are not similar to the work
In the creative industry, many companies accept submissions from the public. Therefore, it is common for people to be questioned by the “plagiarism” of contributors. “Sankei Shimbun News” interviewed a number of companies and asked them how to deal with such accusations
Publish “Blow it!” Baodaoshe, the original novel of Youfeng, replied that for the submitted works received by the Newcomer Awards, they will dissolve after a certain period, and the publisher will not leave a manuscript. In addition, the manuscripts received outside the time of the newcomer awards will basically be rejected
In order to discover new people, the lecture agency accepts the manuscripts of works such as comics. According to the person in charge of the company’s propaganda, for the works with the manuscript, after reading the manuscripts received, most of them will return the manuscript to the author on the spot. When someone questions whether they are plagiarized, they can only explain in detail that this is the author’s complete originality and hopes to get the other party’s understanding
Animation companies SUNRISE does not accept works and planning proposals from ordinary people. When someone submits a submission unilaterally, they will send back the original by the person in charge of the department that does not involve the planning. This is one of the crisis avoidance measures taken to avoid unnecessary trouble
And animation companies such as P.A.WORKS and A-1 Pictures often explicitly inform the company on the official website that they do not accept submissions and submissions of original works
In addition, Sankei News also interviewed Naito, a lawyer familiar with copyright issues. Attorney Naito said that only when the person in charge of the production plan in the company “is deemed to have made a clear reference to the submitted work at the time of production” will constitute copyright infringement. And “the extent of the plot is consistent with the part of the line, or the same name of the person, will be considered the same as the ‘common performance’, and does not design copyright infringement.”
In this incident, considering that the Kyoto animation party did not share the submitted works within the company, Naito lawyers argued that “as long as the production team does not share the work, it should not constitute copyright infringement”
(https://www.sankei.com/west/news/190901/wst1909010016.html)