{"id":23897,"date":"2010-11-18T22:27:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=23897"},"modified":"2010-11-18T22:27:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:27:16","slug":"mangaka-to-combat-digital-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/mangaka-to-combat-digital-piracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangaka to Combat Digital Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101118015716.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101118015716-450x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"J-Comi mock-up\" width=\"450\" height=\"390\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101118015716-450x390.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101118015716-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101118015716.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manga creator Ken Akamatsu (Negima, Love Hina) has <a href=\"http:\/\/d.hatena.ne.jp\/KenAkamatsu\/20101115\" target=\"_blank\">announced plans<\/a> to launch a digital manga distribution website named &#8220;J-Comi&#8221; that will provide free access to DRM-free digital copies of out-of-print manga from a number of participating manga artists. The downloads will be ad supported; revenue will be split among all of the participating artists. Akamatsu cites one of the reasons for the development of the distribution platform as a means to combat unauthorized digital manga distribution. A beta version of the site will launch on November 26 with 14 volumes of Akamatsu&#8217;s Love Hina manga. The site will formally launch on January 10, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2010-11-17\/negima-akamatsu-plans-free-site-for-out-of-print-manga\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manga creator Ken Akamatsu (Negima, Love Hina) has announced plans to launch a digital manga distribution website named &#8220;J-Comi&#8221; that will provide free access to DRM-free digital copies of out-of-print manga from a number of participating manga artists. The downloads will be ad supported; revenue will be split among all of the participating artists. Akamatsu [&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-23897","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\/23897","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=23897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23899,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23897\/revisions\/23899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}