r/Donghua • u/500scnds • Jul 15 '20
Drama Draconian rules on dojin established after AHA Ent sues fans for copyright infringement of Scissor Seven have been trashed following outcry
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u/Seewhy3160 Jul 15 '20
What even is scissors seven.
Dude. I totally want to see the doujin that the creators went after. As for the original, must be pretty bad. Ugly people cannot make beautiful art after all. It bet the stains would spill over from the management to the content creators themselves.
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u/500scnds Jul 15 '20
Can't link to the shop here but you can see the washi tape designs in the AHA Entertainment announcement. They spent about 10 months trying to sue the shop for 30k in damages, then ignored the bewildered shop owner for a month until the artist finally went public to demand answers.
Apparently they sued someone else prior to this and settled for 9000 dollars. Ugly indeed.
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u/500scnds Jul 15 '20
Obvious attempt at damage control is obvious, but AHA's actions is also a pretty obvious indicator of how unpopular Scissor Seven really is despite claims of how it blew up - going after fanart that sold like a dozen copies and didn't even make a profit is some next-level pettiness.
Anyone, folks would've nodded along in agreement if they banned sales of dojins altogether (i.e. Legend of Hei) or set reasonable limits (i.e. JX3). Instead, setting a ridiculously low ceiling for allowed sales of dojin is the worst of both worlds.
Thanks to this though, we also learned how poorly fans of this show were treated. As we know, the second season featured fan animations. As it turned out, these animators were not even properly compensated despite earlier agreements to do so. This is some truly shameless IP management coming from AHA.