Tag: Copyright infringement

Manga Author Wants Elon Musk to Pay Up For Using Art Without Permission

Kentaro Sato, creator of the horror manga Magical Girl Site, noticed that Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk used an image from Sato’s manga without permission or credit. Sato retweeted Musk’s use of Sato’s work in a meme, commenting, “Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk has reprinted …Read more »

Tokyo Court Rules Copying Text from Manga Chapters Is Copyright Infringement

April 1, 2021

Danica Davidson

Publisher Shogakukan became aware of someone posting dialogue from their manga on a “spoiler website.” Allegedly this person posted almost all the text from sixty-three manga chapters of Kengan Omega by Yabako Sandrovich without permission. Shogakukan took this to court, wanting to figure out who …Read more »