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NEWS: Girls und Panzer Restricts Production, Sales of Unofficial Goods

If their 'looking the other way' attitude towards fan produced items has resulted in people actually duplicating official merchandise, then should they stop looking the other way?

I don't know. I'd think there's a breaking point somewhere, and GuP might have reached that point.

There's a clear distinction between doujinshi, which require creating new material, and bootleg merchandise and they are not same people producing them. Are they going to send the police to raid Comiket now?

configspace wrote:

There's a clear distinction between doujinshi, which require creating new material, and bootleg merchandise and they are not same people producing them. Are they going to send the police to raid Comiket now?

There won't be a need for that. Comiket will simply reject anyone's application that says they'll be making a G&P work, and remove any section for those circles.
Without sales from comiket, the circles will move on to other franchises, and doujinshi output will likely drop like a rock.
Furthermore, stores in akihabara that sell doujinshi/used doujinshi will likely remove and not stock anything from the franchise, relegating further sales to online auction sites and internet stores only.

This statement (unless it's clarified), will kill doujinshi output for the franchise. There's a reason we hardly see any Japanese major nintendo IP doujinshi, and it's not because "zelda" is only popular in the west. When a company comes out against it, it kills the majority of creators from making it.

But what about the already confirmed circles doing GuP doujinshi for the upcoming C94. Webcatalog lists 240 GuP entries. Are they all suddenly gonna be rejected? Would be hard for them to change to a different property.

configspace wrote:

There's a clear distinction between doujinshi, which require creating new material, and bootleg merchandise and they are not same people producing them. Are they going to send the police to raid Comiket now?

There won't be a need for that. Comiket will simply reject anyone's application that says they'll be making a G&P work, and remove any section for those circles.
Without sales from comiket, the circles will move on to other franchises, and doujinshi output will likely drop like a rock.
Furthermore, stores in akihabara that sell doujinshi/used doujinshi will likely remove and not stock anything from the franchise, relegating further sales to online auction sites and internet stores only.

This statement (unless it's clarified), will kill doujinshi output for the franchise. There's a reason we hardly see any Japanese major nintendo IP doujinshi, and it's not because "zelda" is only popular in the west. When a company comes out against it, it kills the majority of creators from making it.

samuelp wrote:

configspace wrote: There's a clear distinction between doujinshi, which require creating new material, and bootleg merchandise and they are not same people producing them. Are they going to send the police to raid Comiket now? There won't be a need for that. Comiket will simply reject anyone's application that says they'll be making a G&P work, and remove any section for those circles. Without sales from comiket, the circles will move on to other franchises, and doujinshi output will likely drop like a rock. Furthermore, stores in akihabara that sell doujinshi/used doujinshi will likely remove and not stock anything from the franchise, relegating further sales to online auction sites and internet stores only. This statement (unless it's clarified), will kill doujinshi output for the franchise. There's a reason we hardly see any Japanese major nintendo IP doujinshi, and it's not because "zelda" is only popular in the west. When a company comes out against it, it kills the majority of creators from making it.

There is plenty of Fire Emblem, and ungodly amounts of Splatoon. And there are a lot of zelda. Mario is the only thing I dont think I seems to have that much.

But I dont know if this is a trend, this is the second series asking for no Doushiniji in a week.

There is plenty of Fire Emblem, and ungodly amounts of Splatoon. And there are a lot of zelda. Mario is the only thing I dont think I seems to have that much.