John UM
Composer Tanaka Fair was sitting in a tram, searching for his name on Twitter, and suddenly saw a tweet saying, “I’m going! Tanaka is fair!” He looked up and sat opposite him wearing glasses. Youth. The two were staring at each other, nodding shyly and greeting each other
(https://twitter.com/kenokun/status/1198832844090462208).
Recording engineer Uehara, who has worked with many best-selling musicians, came up with a hypothesis: There are only three ways to sell music: parents have money, eat soft rice, or have 8 hours at home after work. Time. Rather than having music talent, the first and most important thing is how much time you can spend on music. If you can’t do this, you can’t even enter the game field
(https://twitter.com/upopo_sho/status/1198288561218260992).
The cartoonist Yosuke Dog lamented that “This story is purely fictional and has no connection with actual characters and groups.” It is a concise and concise article, but too many readers cannot understand this sentence. He imagined that the precautions before the start of fictional works in the future might have to be written as follows:
This story is purely fictitious and has nothing to do with actual people and groups. The author does not fully acknowledge all the actions of the characters in the work, and the ethics of the villain are not described by the author himself. In addition, nirvana and so on cannot be realized on scientific evidence, please understand. Although there is a smoking scene in the work, I can’t write it.
(https://twitter.com/yohsuken/status/1197041765116608513).
I remembered that I had read a Latin American novel, and wrote it before the opening: This story is purely fictional, but the historical background of the miserable and chaotic history of a certain country, certain time, if it is also fiction, how good it is Ah (meaning)
In recent years, more and more animated works use real-life street scenes as backgrounds, causing fans to go to the town streets described in the works, search for the shops and buildings that appear on the screen, and conduct “holy places”. Although the quality of the rangers is uneven, it sometimes causes problems; however, there are also some shops that have greatly increased traffic and turnover, and they are also grateful for the animation works and the rangers
But what happens when the image of the building is an adult game?
The dim sum shop “PATISSIER eS KOYAMA” in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, encountered such a problem
“PATISSIER eS KOYAMA” is known as “Dessert Paradise”. The owner, Koyama Jin, is a famous dessert chef who has won awards at the Paris Chocolate Salon Exhibition. This shop opened in his hometown is also very well known in Japan
However, PATISSIER eS KOYAMA was informed that the adult game “Star Cafe and Grim Reaper”, which will be released on December 20, used the building’s architectural shape without permission
“Starlight Cafe and Butterfly of Death” was developed by the popular adult game brand YUZUSOFT. The “Starlight Cafe” is the work of the protagonists. The building’s appearance obviously refers to PATISSIER eS KOYAMA. The game is not yet on the market, and fans have already gone to the store for the “Holy Land Tour”
According to an interview with “Kobe Shimbun”, the YUZUSOFT party admitted that they had used the shape of their store without permission from PATISSIER eS KOYAMA, and at the same time argued that they erased the store logo and adjusted the color of the stone wall, so “there is Copyright issue”. According to YUZUSOFT, games, animations, and comics often do not apply for permission from the building owner or right holder when describing the building
And the law professor Atsushi Maruyama also said: “If (buildings) are used in sex scenes, it may also constitute a hindrance to business; but it is difficult to ask game companies to delete, etc. only as a background.”
The store side thinks that because of the “age-restricted game” of Starlight Cafe and Grim Reaper, the use of the store’s appearance in this game will inevitably make shop customers unhappy. They will consider how to respond after the game is officially launched and the store shape is indeed used in the game. The shop publicity department said that I hope everyone knows that the producer has not obtained their permission
(https://www.kobe-np.co.jp/news/sougou/201911/0012897124.shtml).
Facing the tough attitude of the store, YUZUSOFT also made concessions, expressing trouble to the store, apologizing publicly, and promised to replace all relevant background image materials in the officially released games, and the game will not be postponed accordingly. For sale
(http://www.yuzu-soft.com/191122.html).
According to Article 46 of the Japanese Copyright Law, buildings and publicly displayed artworks can be used in any form other than individual exceptions such as direct imitation sales. Therefore, whether it is an adult game or an adult comic, the use of buildings that exist in reality does not involve copyright issues
However, as the representative of another adult game brand PURPLE SOFTWARE said, “If there is no problem in law, it will be trouble if it becomes a problem.”
(https://twitter.com/purple_ishikawa/status/1197769673720258560).
Although adult games are legal in Japan, they are not recognized and accepted by everyone. Even if the owner himself has no prejudice against adult games, it must be taken into account that among dessert shop customers, there are many women and seniors. If they learn that a shop has appeared in an adult game, it is hard to say that it will not have a resistance attitude to this shop, which will cause the shop’s customer traffic to decline. What’s more, PATISSIER eS KOYAMA has also established a “Future Studio” that only children under the sixth grade of primary school can enter, which may be more sensitive to this. These delicate issues cannot be solved by a single line of law
In contrast, the animated “Dice Club After School” broadcast this quarter also uses the actual coffee shop “tea room い せ は ん “. However, the animation producer seemed to have obtained the store’s permission in advance when framing the scene, and publicly thanked the store on Twitter for “greatly agreeing to take pictures” to promote the store
(https://twitter.com/StudioLagurus/status/1189378134518329345).
In addition, the shapes of some buildings-such as the famous Tokyo Skytree-have been registered by the right holders. Even if the shape of the building is not protected by copyright, the use of these buildings in the work may also touch the trademark Protection, provoked a lawsuit