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What Lawyers Can Learn From Manga

Posted by timothy on from the lots-and-lots dept.

jedigeek links to this article from Lawrence Lessig, writing "This article explains the interesting phenomenon of dojinshi, and why dojinshi helps fuel the production of original manga. From a western-perspective, dojinshi breaks copyright laws, but, according to the article's author: 'The law is a rough-edged tool. It was not crafted by geniuses of economics.' In a time when laws like the DMCA exist and are being exploited, this is certainly food for thought."

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  1. Re:So "Dojinshi" is....? by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 1, Funny



    Seriously.

    If you guys need some porn, just ask. Its not that scary, and your mom doesn't have to know. You really don't need to resort to drawing your own.

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  2. What lawyers *can* learn from hentai by Compact+Dick · · Score: 5, Funny


    new and better ways of tentacle rape that they can then apply to their clients.

    Oh, wait...

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  3. wierdest quote ever... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    [i]consumers should be banned from hacking Sony dogs,[/i]

  4. You can learn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    All about tentacle rape. Laywers love tentacle rape.

  5. Aibo doing jazz... by Peterus7 · · Score: 2, Funny
    When a Sony lawyer threatened a fan of the company's Aibo robotic dog, who had posted a hack online to teach the dog to dance to jazz, he or she no doubt never thought to ask exactly how making the Aibo dog more valuable to customers could possibly harm Sony.

    Simply LMAO...

  6. What lawyers need... by imehler · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lawyers need to learn that if they go after doujinshi Excel is going to go all psycho on their butts. Even her conscience is a murderer. (Yes, I know she was ordered to kill the Manga-Ka, but hey, she didn't go through with it... well, ok, so she killed him once, but she didn't do it again when the great will of the macrocosm reset the plot.)

  7. If your business plan runs out of steam.. by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... change the laws to force people into it!

  8. Douglas Adams got it right by Morgaine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lawyers should be placed on the Arc B together with telephone sanitizers, advertising account executives, hairdressers, insurance salesmen and management consultants, then sent on a direct course towards a nice distant and solid planet to save them from being eaten alive by the mutant star goat.

    Arc B should of course be sent ahead of the other arcs --- there's nothing nicer than a nice clean telephone to welcome home the producers and achievers.

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  9. Re:What Lessig can learn from a lawyer. by schon · · Score: 3, Funny

    As an English-speaking lawyer for Matushita who spends six months of every year in Tokyo on business, I feel qualified to point out that Lessig's argument is complete rubbish

    Congratulations, you just proved his point.

    Lawyers don't get it.

  10. Re:fanfix by susano_otter · · Score: 3, Funny
    My Eng 256 (creative writing) class was 50% fanfic, mostly of anime, and most of it being utter crap.

    If that's the kind of writing we're producing in college classes, then I see no reason to preserve the earth for for anybody who's in school right now, let alone future generations who will undoubtedly be even more repulsive.

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