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« Generation Obama: Politics 2 | Main | Global-warming non-experts » Wednesday, February 21, 2007Copyright and animeIn the ongoing battles over copyright in an age when dissemination is impossible to control -- a favorite topic of mine, Brainiac readers know -- another interesting frontier: the world of Japanese anime cartoons. According to a blog post by media and pop culture theorist Henry Jenkins, one anime outfit in Japan is choosing not to run scared from viewer trading nor sue copyright violators, but instead to capitalize on the international spread of videos whose subtitles have been supplied by fans ("fansubs"). They encourage the viral marketing and inject their own urging to support the commercial release of the products into the pumping bloodstream. Jenkins notes that Bostonians can look forward to a conference at MIT beginning Feb. 28 called Cool Japan, where anime fans will be very much at home. Also worth noting: Thoughtcast interviews Jenkins and tells us that he will be speaking at another MIT conference this Saturday called Beyond Broadcast, subtitled From Participatory Technology to Participatory Democracy. Sounds like my bag, anyway. Thanks to ThoughtCast for including Brainiac among the favorite links. Posted by Evan Hughes at 05:11 PM
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