{"id":21732,"date":"2010-06-09T15:12:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=21732"},"modified":"2010-06-09T15:12:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T19:12:29","slug":"publishers-to-collectively-fight-manga-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/publishers-to-collectively-fight-manga-piracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishers To Collectively Fight Manga Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 36 member companies of Japan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Digital Comic Association, Square Enix, VIZ Media, TOKYOPOP, Vertical, Inc., the Tuttle-Mori Agency, and Yen Press have formed an international coalition intended to combat unauthorized online manga distribution. &#8220;Scanlations,&#8221; unauthorized translations of scanned pages of manga or scanned and uploaded pages of commercially published translated manga, undermine &#8220;foreign licensing opportunities and unlawfully cannibalizing legitimate sales.&#8221; The publisher coalition will initially specifically target 30 &#8220;scanlation aggregator&#8221; websites that &#8220;host thousands of pirated titles, earning ad revenue and\/or membership dues at creators\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 expense.&#8221; The coalition will pursue legal action &#8211; including injunctions, statutory damages, and reporting offending sites to federal anti-piracy authorities &#8211; against sites deemed guilty of intellectual property theft that do not voluntarily cease their illegal distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viz.com\/news\/newsroom\/?id=617\" target=\"_blank\">Viz Media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 36 member companies of Japan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Digital Comic Association, Square Enix, VIZ Media, TOKYOPOP, Vertical, Inc., the Tuttle-Mori Agency, and Yen Press have formed an international coalition intended to combat unauthorized online manga distribution. &#8220;Scanlations,&#8221; unauthorized translations of scanned pages of manga or scanned and uploaded pages of commercially published translated manga, undermine &#8220;foreign licensing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21733,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21732\/revisions\/21733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}