I think I read somewhere that Naburo copied arts from Slam Dunk, Initial D, shoujou manga, and Chinese manhua. I'll try to look for the pic again but it's pretty obvious that it's fail.
Anyway, this actually raised a question on plagiarism because apparently there's parody law where it's not plagiarism if the original title/characters' names/etc aren't mentioned so I don't know about Naburo. Though this is obviously a plagiarized version of Naruto, it might actually be legal. Someone with knowledge on law should check though.
Regarding Shueisha, I actually think that there's no need to worry. It's not like this is the first time Indonesia has plagiarized something from East Asia and so far they haven't done anything. I doubt they would pursue a law suit on this or even withdraw Naruto from Indonesia. We have pretty decent manga market so they can't possibly want to miss that.
However, I think there's a chance that the mangakas whose arts are being imitated to sue. It's happened before with several Japanese mangaka where they were sued or at least got into problem with law because they (seem) to have copied the poses of pictures from some magazines without giving credit. The author of Slam Dunk once sued because of this and there are at least two yaoi mangakas I know who stopped working for a while due to law suit.
So bottom line is... Naburo sucks but unfortunately there's probably gonna be no legal moves done against this.
Also.... where's the damn petition to get Naburo out of the shelves??
I've heard about the parody law. But even then, Naburo DID mention 'The NextGen NARUTO' below the title so it could be sued.
Yeah, even the mangaka of DGM had to put her work into hiatus when she had to deal with that kind of lawsuit. So perhaps if the original mangakas (not only Kishimoto but all of whose arts are copied) knew about this, they would WANT to sue... >.>
Geh. Pathetic. As if the plagiarism isn't bad enough, the copying-artwork-thing sure is a big NO-NO...
I just signed it. Will send it to my friends so they could sign it as well.
Anyway... the ones that will probably sue are those whose art are copied. Since you can only see a little of Kishimoto's art, he might not do anything. On the other hand, this person does copy Kishimoto's design so...
Anyway, this actually raised a question on plagiarism because apparently there's parody law where it's not plagiarism if the original title/characters' names/etc aren't mentioned so I don't know about Naburo. Though this is obviously a plagiarized version of Naruto, it might actually be legal. Someone with knowledge on law should check though.
Regarding Shueisha, I actually think that there's no need to worry. It's not like this is the first time Indonesia has plagiarized something from East Asia and so far they haven't done anything. I doubt they would pursue a law suit on this or even withdraw Naruto from Indonesia. We have pretty decent manga market so they can't possibly want to miss that.
However, I think there's a chance that the mangakas whose arts are being imitated to sue. It's happened before with several Japanese mangaka where they were sued or at least got into problem with law because they (seem) to have copied the poses of pictures from some magazines without giving credit. The author of Slam Dunk once sued because of this and there are at least two yaoi mangakas I know who stopped working for a while due to law suit.
So bottom line is... Naburo sucks but unfortunately there's probably gonna be no legal moves done against this.
Also.... where's the damn petition to get Naburo out of the shelves??
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Yeah, even the mangaka of DGM had to put her work into hiatus when she had to deal with that kind of lawsuit. So perhaps if the original mangakas (not only Kishimoto but all of whose arts are copied) knew about this, they would WANT to sue... >.>
Geh. Pathetic. As if the plagiarism isn't bad enough, the copying-artwork-thing sure is a big NO-NO...
As for the petition.. Here: http://www.petitiononline.com/naburo/
Sign it? :D
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Anyway... the ones that will probably sue are those whose art are copied. Since you can only see a little of Kishimoto's art, he might not do anything. On the other hand, this person does copy Kishimoto's design so...
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