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NEWS: Yuki Suetsugu Copies Art From Other Manga

BUT you guys, having used photos and comics and just about anything else I could find for references for difficult positions myself, I think I can safely say that she did NOT mean to plagarize the manga and was just trying to find some good references of basketball-playing guys.

In any case, I wonder if this effects the Doujinshi community at all... I'm guessing it dosen't, because they went after a major publication.

not to sound controversial or anything... but i think she's getting it worse is cause she's a woman.

VespaChick wrote:

Haru to Ashura wrote: VML wrote: You people might wanna see this picture. Yuki also copied from a photo of Kate Moss! [/url] God, how could someone not have noticed that? Kodansha needs to hire some better editors, sheesh. Drawing from a photo is not plagerism. The other works are copying an image in the same medium, that's complete plagerism. However working from photos is hardly illegal and is what she should have done if she needed references for her other panels she copied.

Wrong, it depends on the nature of the photo. Drawing off of random stock-photos, self-taken photos, and unprofessional photography is fine. But coping off of this sort of photo is illegal (unless in the nature of parody) because this photo is professional and artistic - it's considered commercial art, as are manga/comics. Basically, even though it's not the same medium, it's an artist coping a different artist - they just used different mediums. If someone copied a Van Gogh painting, but used watercolors or pencil instead of oil, it would still be copying - same concept. Well-composed photography is accepted as a form of fine art and commerical art.

I remember when L' Arc En Ciel was performing the fourth ending song to Rurouni Kenshin, and they actually removed it from the show and replaced it with the previous ending song because one of them had been caught doing cocaine or something...but unlike Psycho le Cemu, L'Arc is still around. Cause they rule.

It'd also be interesting to see if/how much plagurism occurs in the American comic industry.

Haru to Ashura wrote:

It'd also be interesting to see if/how much plagurism occurs in the American comic industry.

Are you KIDDING me? This kind of thing is called "swiping" by the US comic book industry, and it happens ALL THE TIME. generally, if an artist is copying a well known image, like say referencing the layout of a famous cover, then generally where the artist signs the cover they will point it out (i.e. if I swiped the cover to Fantastic Four #1 I'd sign it "Jason Green After Jack Kirby").

There was a website with a "swipe of the week"file that detailed this stuff. The most infamous guy on the site was Rob Liefeld, the creator of Youngblood and former X-Force artist. When his "Fighting American" series started (FA himself was a ripoff of Captain America, but that's another story...), there were whole two-page spreads swiped from the manga "Eat Man."

But yeah, this kind of thing happens in American comics all the time, and while it's not illegal in any way, shape, or form, it's generally frowned upon, and a lot of the big swipers (Liefeld, Roger Cruz, Fabio Laguna) have a lot of trouble finding work.