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Crimson Seiko



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:45 pm Reply with quote
I knew their recent Mega Man Star Force press release (released on June 19th) sounded familiar, and it seemed odd that they were using the Japanese names in the release (right down to "Rockman" instead of "Mega Man")... especially since an earlier press release used their new English names.

Press release here: http://www.viz.com/news/newsroom/2007/06_uniqueliexpo.php

Then I realized... They ripped it directly from the summary I submitted to Anime News Network months ago.

Here: anime#6894

I'm not regularly on ANN, so I'm not positive how to view what I've contributed (if there is a way)... But I took a screenshot of the page showing me logged in and showing that I have an EDIT link next to the summary, meaning I submitted it and am able to alter it, unlike the summary before it.

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2923/vizannon9.jpg

Unless there's a way to view when my summary was submitted, I understand that there's no real way to prove that I didn't submit this summary AFTER the press release... But I'm sure there's a way to check.

Again, I don't regular ANN, so I'm bringing this up in the forums because I'm hoping someone can suggest something I can do about this. I expect most of the things I publicly write on websites like ANN and Wikipedia to be stolen on other websites, but when someone like VIZ starts using them for profit, then it bothers me, and I want to think I could do something about it.
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Shiroi Hane
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:13 am Reply with quote
Haven't the time to go over it myself, but if you haven't seen it ANN copyright policy is here
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PantsGoblin
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:28 pm Reply with quote
Crimson Seiko wrote:
Unless there's a way to view when my summary was submitted, I understand that there's no real way to prove that I didn't submit this summary AFTER the press release... But I'm sure there's a way to check.


Every submission to the ANN encyclopedia has the date it was submitted recorded. So there's definitely proof that you wrote it prior to their press release. Although it is obvious Viz got most of the summary from here, they intentionally changed the first sentence in order to avoid copyright, I'm guessing:

Crimson Seiko wrote:
In the year 220X, the world has advanced toward radio-wave technology, and the world is connected through the Wave Road. Meet Subaru Hoshikawa, a fifth-grade student who lost his father in a space accident. Subaru meets an extraterrestrial radio-wave being named War-Rock, descending from a distant FM planet. War-Rock claims to know about Subaru's father, but many alien beings are after War-Rock. The two work together and merge into Rockman, a radio-wave human capable of traversing the Wave Road and battling the radio-wave viruses and FMs that threaten the Earth.


Viz wrote:
MEGA MAN STAR FORCE is set in the year 220X in a world that has advanced toward radio-wave technology, and is connected through the Wave Road. Meet Subaru Hoshikawa, a fifth-grade student who lost his father in a space accident. Subaru meets an extraterrestrial radio-wave being named War-Rock, descending from a distant FM planet. War-Rock claims to know about Subaru's father, but many alien beings are after War-Rock. The two work together and merge into Rockman, a radio-wave human capable of traversing the Wave Road and battling the radio-wave viruses and FMs that threaten the Earth.


Tempest or someone would probably be able to evaluate this better though, I'm not an expert in this subject...
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