/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Basically, if you're not Japanese by birth, you're not allowed to make anything involving Japanese's companies' intellectual property.

If you ignore that, you can be sued for copyright infringement.

Sorry about that, that's just how it works.

Cute pic dude

>>10469179
Doujin circles are often associated with studios. The people who make them are usually assistant animators and such. Due to their contract, they are free to use the characters as they wish as long as they make it clear it's a derivative work. Otherwise you can just register your doujin circle in a copyright agency and make all your works known through them beforehand. The agency will then inform the studio, which will get a percentage of the profits from the doujin circle.

If you notice, doujinshi are sold in conventions. This makes it easier to studios to track which circles are making what. They sponsor those conventions, in turn giving doujinka a place to sell their products.

If they tell you to stop or sue you, stop. Otherwise they usually just consider it free advertising.

You are allowed to make whatever you want as long as it is fanwork and not published or "sold for profit."

But if you're American or something, you can do whatever you want and the Japanese companies can't/won't do shit. Even moreso if you live in an irrelevant country.

99.9% of doujinshi is pornography which counts as parody so it's exempt from the Berne Convention agreements.

>>10469215
Depends on the company and their international presence. Square-Enix are notorious for sending C&Ds to fan projects. Nintendo have done it a few times too.

>>10469235
This OP. Even if you don't want to make pornography just slip a little penis in there and get it passed as a parody.

>>10469243
Nintendo and Square-Enix are completely different stories though, because they have a huge international presence.

Smaller companies and studios won't care though.

>>10469262
>just slip a little penis in there

>>10469283
Most doujin fan works are derived from franchises created by those big companies, though. Touhou is just a bizarre outlier.

>>10469262
This explains the extreme lack of Etrian Odyssey doujin manga that doesn't involve mountains of tentacle rape.

I guess this is the reason why Touhou has spread so much via doujin work.

ZUN don't give a shit anymore if you're making money off his baby

I heard that it was technically illegal but no one ever pursues legal actions in fear of being hated by their fans or something along those lines.

>>10475001
Obviously you're not familiar with Japanese torrent laws.

>>10469210
I wonder if ZUN gets money from 2hu porn

>>10475006
The people who get pissed off by that aren't the paying customers, so it's fine.