Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-26574811-20160110103715

70.83.39.226 wrote: If they can convince DMM that Americans can pay more then Chinese/Taiwanese, it might just make DMM reconsider. That is the thing about money.

@Vcharng Yes, I do worry about that. And I never heard about Ishihara, but his case alrealdy shows that politicians are willing to bite at the hand that feeds them. Politicians who are out of their minds are willing to bite the hand that feeds them.

Others are suggesting all sorts of methods to legalize Doujinshis under TPP because "it is a huge market".

TPP requires copyright violation to be non-shinkokuzai, that is, the authorities should sue them even without receiving request from the copyright holder. As Doujinshis are pretty much allowed to exist solely by the copyright holders' NOT taking action, this would mean a complete ban of any non-official Doujinshi.

Why is Doujinshi allowed to exist solely by the copyright holders' tolerence? Because according to Japanese law, a "secondary creation", e.g. a Doujinshi, has its copyright shared by the original AND the doujin author. In other words, a KC doujin's copyright, for example, is supposed to belong to both DMM and its doujin circle. But in reality, it is only claimed by the circle. A circle claiming its copyright and profit alone is supposedly illegal, but as doujins actually helps the sales of the original, almost all original work copyright holders choose to ignore them, and enjoy the positive effect they bring.

If copyright violation actually becomes non-shinkokuzai, the Japanese goverment will have to ban all doujinshis, which would deal a heavy blow to the whole ACG industry. Currently this is the second largest obstacle between Japan and TPP, according to NHK's coverage, and the politicians are actually willing to work a way around this problem.