Nico Douga to remove fanmade anime videos
CNET Japan reports that Nico Nico Douga has come to an agreement with The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA), Japan Video Software Association (JVA), and Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPA) to remove vids that are in violation of copyright belonging to members of these organizations.
This includes all fan made videos that violate the copyrights of members of these organizations. They will start deleting all existing videos that are in violation and will monitor all newly uploaded videos for violations.
AJA is made up of 34 full members and 22 associate members comprising of anime studios such as Gonzo, Sunrise, and Studio Ghibli. JVA has 35 members including Walt Disney Japan, Kadokawa Shoten, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and MPPA is made up of 4 members consisting of Shochiku, Toho, Toei, and Kadokawa Eiga.
I guess that means Nico douga is only going to be left with Touhou, Idolmaster, Vocaloid, people dancing and singing, and game vids.
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:33 am
“Come into agreement” sounds too politically correct. I’d say “bullied”.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:04 am
agreement is one thing, execution is another.
I would love to see Nico Douga “fail to fully comply the rules”.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 am
FUCK
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:22 am
when the ass-kissing sycophantic japanese fans agree to this as well
the corporation ain’t going to break no rules
Let’s pack up and go pals, nicodou is over.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 am
That doesn’t sound cool.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:47 am
WHAT IS THIS SHIT. GOODBYE, NICO. OUR AFFAIR WAS SWEET WHILE IT LASTED.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:39 am
What is this crap? Think they’re going back to YouTube?
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:54 am
WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER, FAGGOTS.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:19 am
Where’s the screencap from?
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:25 am
Have a feeling that youtube got a massive storm of Japanese users today.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 am
> Have a feeling that youtube got a massive storm of Japanese users today.
$10 on that.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 am
Nico Douga, today experiment…………………. FAILED!
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
damn…
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
So does that mean that wholly fan-made videos with copyrighted characters (i.e. the Caramelldansen stuff) is subject to being stripped down, or is it just things like MADs?
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
eh? why, I never understand them. I always like the fanmade movies, their the greatest (and free) commercials ever. They are wasting a market! The heck? Do they want us to buy blindfolded? … Hope the fan-made videos survives. @Mugi, another one fully agrees.
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
HOW WILL I WATCH MAD MOVIES
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
> Where’s the screencap from?
Screencap is from a parody of the third OP of Pani Poni Dash!, with Ilya from F/SN in it.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Uh huh, whatever happened to Nico Nico Douga being the 2ch of video?
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:09 am
＼(＾o＾)／オワタ
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 am
>So does that mean that wholly fan-made videos with copyrighted
>characters (i.e. the Caramelldansen stuff) is subject to being stripped
>down, or is it just things like MADs?
I don’t know how far they want to take this actually, but hand drawn OP parodies like the Pani Poni Dash one that I used as the pic for the post have already been deleted before the announcement.
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:32 am
Hurray for copyright enforcement!!!!!!!!!!
I’m ready to go for the 3D spectacular Big Brother experience.
When will it happen?!
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I agree with Hirvine. Nico nico isn’t making any money on the videos and fanmade movies are never things that detract from the real products. The movies definitely make more people watch the shows than reduce them. As long as actual episodes arn’t put up, then its all good for both consumer and producer.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:08 pm
oh well i knew it wouldn’t last. it seems the’re serious on removing all licensed anime,AMVs and fansubs which is a good thing. it’ll prevent some good companies from going belly hop like geneon.
July 4th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I’d kill for a larger version of that Ilya picture or the actual link to the parody thing
July 5th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Geneon went bust because of poor business decisions and over-extending themselves, not because of some shitty AMVs.
And if a company is so clusterfuck mismanaged that something as simple as AMVs can kill it, then it deserves to die ASAP.
July 5th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
FUCK SHIT CUNTS
dammit japan!
July 6th, 2008 at 8:35 am
INTERNET’S CLOSED DUE TO RAIDS.
July 6th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
OH SHI-
Think Youtube’s gonna follow suit?
If this shit keeps up, I’m gonna have to torrent everything I watch, and lemme tell you it’s a pain in the ass
July 7th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
This stinks, Well geneon kind of had their own problems. I wonder why Nico caved like that. this is going to make it harder for me to find new things to watch. i find out about most of the Anime’s i watch through friends or through AMVs.
over all, this is just sad that some companies have to do this to save themselves.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Nico has ALWAYS caved like a little bitch from day one. This is nothing new. The slightest complaint and POOF!
July 11th, 2008 at 6:19 am
The obvious thing to do now is to create a NicoNico clone in FINLAND that allows all sorts of movies.
To attract maximum coverage, it should have a moé mascot.
Are you taking notes?
August 27th, 2008 at 2:44 am
http://www.niconicodouga.de/ NicoVideo searcheninge