Quickie: Persona Gets Picked Up?
Dated: 17 Mar 2008
CrunchyRoll finally proves useful! CJBlackwing reports that CrunchyRoll’s Persona -trinity soul- videos have been marked as licensed by Aniplex (who does only occasional licensing work in the US). Makes plenty of sense, seeing as it was done by A-1 Pictures, a division of Aniplex…and seeing as it’s a pretty popular franchise.
So what really remains to be seen is who Aniplex would pick for localization and distro. IF it’s really licensed.
Edit: Thought I’d add: as one user points out on CJB’s blog, Crunchy Roll’s licensing notes aren’t always accurate– it could simply be that Aniplex was the company that requested the removal.
Tags: aniplex, persona, persona -trinity soul-
March 17th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
I wouldn’t bet on it, unlike popular believes amongst recent fansub watchers, DMCA is suppose to work for anyone in the world - a Japanese company does have the legal right to ask companies in the US such as CR and Youtube to take down videos even if it is not licensed in the US region. They just never bothered because one it is extremely time/cost consuming and it creates bad buzz amongst the fans because you don’t want to put the legal hammer on poor college students and what not (refer to RIAA on illegal download cases for example).
However now that CR has got money they’ve just opened the doors for everyone to take them to court and sue for copyright infringement damages, and I’m willing to bet that’s exactly why they’re conforming to takedown orders much more “efficiently” now than they were before. :rolleyes: