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All About Licensing: Part III

Poor Saliva Princess. All it really wanted was to spread the joys of spit swapping.

Thanks for the articles Justin. Like others have already said, they were very informative. If you can take suggestions for your next articles, I would really like to know how much money North American publishers make (especially FUNi and Sentai).

If you're taking suggestions, your next in depth series should be on how an anime is created in the first place. I don't mean the animation process, but the steps before that, e.g. the initial catalyst, the funding, the collection of the production committee, the decision on who handles what and rights, etc, and the early development timeline.
Perhaps split into a couple of different scenarios.

So happy everyone likes these!

As one might imagine, the guys at AniProduce Co., Ltd. are not happy with 1Up. They're considering legal action, but after consulting with the company lawyer, they're informed that it's still probably not worth suing over. The laws are murky, and a costly court battle would still be way more trouble than it's worth.

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The other thing to remember is that small, one-season TV shows are comparatively low-stakes commodities. If this were a Naruto or a Yu-Gi-Oh!, the stakes would be exponentially higher, and a lack of reports and royalties would make any content owner immediately see red. But again, given the cost of litigating an issue in a foreign country, things would have to get really, really bad before anybody would consider legal action.

samuelp wrote:

If you're taking suggestions, your next in depth series should be on how an anime is created in the first place. I don't mean the animation process, but the steps before that, e.g. the initial catalyst, the funding, the collection of the production committee, the decision on who handles what and rights, etc, and the early development timeline. Perhaps split into a couple of different scenarios.

If you were going to do this, two different scenarios to cover would have to be an anime-original title and one adapted from a popular manga.