>>7604You're correct about Japanese people being against piracy and art theft to the point where it's ridiculous, but that's not the reason why artists are so stuck up in that context. Artists want to not be accused of copyright infrigement no matter what and would rather look paranoid than act the way fanartists do in the west. There's a grey area between fans who create fan content and companies, and when these companies decide they want to sue someone it can get out of hand pretty fast, I heard about some Japanese people putting music in their very old blogs and getting fined millions of yens for not removing it. If artists put disclaimers in their doujinshi explaining that they need to be thrown in the trash if you don't want them anymore they're less worried about being directly accused of something by other fans or companies if someone else posts the entire thing online or want to resell anything on Yahoo auction with inflated prices like a scalper. I've even seen an artist who's into Pokemon asking to not even post pictures of the covers of her doujinshi if you ever buy her stuff during conventions, and my guess is that even though she has a crazy amount of followers she just didn't want random people who aren't into BL or her favorite characters to ever find her stuff and it's not like she can delete someone else's tweet if there are any negative comments on her art or headcanons. This reminds me of when Japan Expo happened in Paris in July and lots of Japanese people were debating over whether it's a good or bad thing that some fanarts related to specific IPs are always likely to be taken down and destroyed by customs, whether they're traced art or fanart that original IP owners would never think about producing because it's too personal, too inappropriate or doesn't fit their brand.
>>7608They don't believe that, it's a hyperbole. They don't want you to resell their doujinshi though, that's why they exaggerate so much. The same artist I talked about found out one of her out of print doujinshi was sold in Mandarake for what's equal to nearly 100 us dollars and it pissed her off so she reprinted it and sold them for a lot cheaper for the next convention in Japan. I've seen other artists asking to not resell their doujinshi not just because they don't want them to
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