Forum - View topicNEWS: Chinese Government to Directly License Japanese Anime
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Big Hed
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I'd pay additional taxes to fund a Department of Anime.
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nhat
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Wow they're actually going to do something, amazing. lol
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KabaKabaFruit
 Posts: 1871 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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Of course, all anime must be screened for government approval first.
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bravetailor
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I wonder what titles could pass the test. Darker Than Black? Li/Hei = Badass Chinese = WIN? |
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scchan
 Posts: 143 Location: Exeter, UK |
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Even this is not the best solution, but it is at least a step forward to manage copyright violations in the PRC. Anything interesting things that are "piratable" is available somewhere in Chinese Internets
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samuelp
Industry Insider
Posts: 2231 Location: San Antonio, USA |
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And who is going to decide how much money they will pay for these licenses?
They have a monopoly by fiat, basically... I suppose it might be good in the long run even if the streaming doesn't make any money, because the Japanese can instead earn by licensing merchandise rights... We'll see. This could have less good motives and be an attempt to virtually "ghettoize" Japanese anime, to make sure that China's domestic produced shows don't have competition on the same airwaves. Time will tell. |
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Big Hed
Posts: 1607 Location: Melbourne, Australia |
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That's an interesting argument, since China just banned foreign properties from airing during prime-time slots. What's the current penetration of anime on Chinese television like? |
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firedragon54738
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Some one in the chinese government is an otaku
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ARC-1300
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I honestly can't see this working out,it sounds good in theory,but in practice it'll fall hard.
After all it does have to get their approval |
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Melanchthon
 Posts: 550 Location: Northwest from Here |
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This surprised me, since I thought the Chinese were loathe to give any acknowledgement to the cultural works of their rivals. My guess is that they have giving up on suppressing anime and are now doing this to better control the content. It also could be an attempt to soften their image, I doubt anyone was paying attention lately but the entire nation of Burma got fed up with China's shtick and defected to the US. And we're like, BFF with Vietnam too, these days. And the whole Syria veto didn't help anything, either. So yeah, they could use some good press around now.
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nhat
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Can you reference about Burma? Burma is a poor country with a corrupt government. Also I can't say we're BFF with Vietnam either but the relationship isn't bad. |
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RoverTX
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This is worrisome, China is a huge new market and if the Chinese government controls the entry for Anime then they can not only more closely and more effectively monitor how the content is edited, but also more closely apply pressure passively and actively to the actual creation process.
Basically this creates more and clearer incentives for Anime producers who want to access China's emerging market to try and create content that the Chinese government would want. Think the recent animation, created with Japanese help and based off an old anime, done for the Chinese government about the new Chinese train system(which turned out to be propaganda for a very unsafe and unsound high speed system). Though I highly doubt Japanese nationalism and pride will let this be that big of a deal, it is none of the less a strange and worrisome move that most likely has very little to do with stopping piracy and move to do with control of media and censorship. To put this in perspective, I don't think many of us would be jumping for joy if tomorrow the US government said it was taking over Funimation to better help combat piracy of animation, or hell if the US government said it was taking over any media outlet. I think we would all say that it smells of propaganda and censorship. |
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configspace
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@RoverTX
Exactly. No matter what the intentions, it's bad news. |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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Father and son with one donkey. |
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RoverTX
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I would not be criticizing them if they set up tasks forces and started prosecuting people at a higher rate for pirating materials, with in reason of course. Hell I would love it if government around the world would actually set up systems to fine people for reasonable damages when they where found pirating media, instead of either doing nothing or charging then $200k for a few movies.
Also, you don't have to take something over completely to regulate it. You would think a country that puts such a high premium on controlling media would have a tighter grasp on pirated material, the fact that they don't is telling. |
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