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NEWS: Anime Tenchou x Touhou, Railgun Promos Streamed

It was hard to see a lot of the detail, but what I could make out looks absolutely *beautiful*. Given this is the closest thing to a full blown "official" Touhou anime we'll get, I'd have taken anything, but it looks like a lot of good work is going into it.

Except even then it can't really be considered "official". ZUN basically said (according to the previous news post on the issue) that he's got nothing to do with the project (the credit for him on the promo was just "Original Creator"). About the only thing that seperates this from MAIKAZE's project (putting aside any snark about the quality of MAIKAZE's project) is that it's a big-name anime studio doing it rather than an independent doujin circle.

If anything, this is probably making ZUN MORE uncomfortable than MAIKAZE's anime did, simply because it IS such a high-profile thing.

There is something strange about the whole issue, that a major studio would feel free to do this without even notifying the creator, whether or not the creator has any direct ability to stop it (anybody versed in the legalities of works like Touhou able to shed some light on that?).

I assume that they notified him at some point. It's just that because it's a derivative work and not a licensed venture, they're under no obligation to share project details. Therefore, he wouldn't know exactly what they're making.

Anyway, ZUN owns the copyright, so he certainly has the power to stop a derivative work that particularly ticks him off. He has guidelines that specify what people are allowed to do.

There is something strange about the whole issue, that a major studio would feel free to do this without even notifying the creator, whether or not the creator has any direct ability to stop it (anybody versed in the legalities of works like Touhou able to shed some light on that?). A small group of fans, sure, but a major studio promoting it and ZUN wasn't even aware of it?

I suppose this situation is different because there's no indication that this work will be commercially available whereas a full-blown anime series would be.