So I was wondering if it's possible to use pictures from Manga that isn't scanlated in your country for an school project?

Or does it matter what kind of country you are in? And does it matter if it's published in Japan?

If it depends on the Country, Then does anyone from Sweden have a clue if i'm allowed to use some pages?

Tesan.

Scanlating a series doesn't mean the scanlator owns a copyright to it...
The only way to legally use the manga is to license it, which is typically done with the publishing companies.

That said, no one will probably care if you use a few images for a school project

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It should be fine as long as you don't use it for profitable purposes, I think.

Okay, Thanks for the Help 🙂

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So I was wondering if it's possible to use pictures from Manga that isn't scanlated in your country for an school project?

It depends on the laws of your own country. Most countries have some kind of fair use concept in their intellectual property laws. Often, you can get away with using something for educational purposes that you wouldn't be allowed to use otherwise.

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No one would care probably, except maybe your teacher if you don't cite your sources

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Umm Can I ask something .. Japanese mangas are usually translated into english by scanslators & posted on the internet right ?? Do they reequire the permission of the author or sumth like that ~

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Umm Can I ask something .. Japanese mangas are usually translated into english by scanslators & posted on the internet right ?? Do they reequire the permission of the author or sumth like that ~

Scanlations do not need permission because they do not make a profit from it; publishers on the other hand need permission from the original Japanese publishers and authors to translate and sell their work into other languages.

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Umm Can I ask something .. Japanese mangas are usually translated into english by scanslators & posted on the internet right ?? Do they reequire the permission of the author or sumth like that ~

Scanlations do not need permission because they do not make a profit from it;

It's still illegal no matter how we justify it though since it's taking someone's work and giving it away for free. So the very least you could do is buy the manga you genuinely like.

Yea I get it that if ppl could read online for free they wont bother to buy the original .. So eventually the author loses out the the profit they could potentially earn . So if I were to buy a manga in japan that is ongoing and not released anywhere else n upload raws or get it scanslated , I would get in trouble ryte ?

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Yea I get it that if ppl could read online for free they wont bother to buy the original .. So eventually the author loses out the the profit they could potentially earn . So if I were to buy a manga in japan that is ongoing and not released anywhere else n upload raws or get it scanslated , I would get in trouble ryte ?

Of course it's illegal!

But if you don't do it too often, companies have better things to do than track down your IP address and enforce legal action.

Foreword, what I wrote below is loosely compiled as the laws differ from a country to country, also there are countries which do not abide with the international copyright laws (though few).

Scanlation as we know it are a form of a digital piracy. Copyright is an international right which is set as soon as the property is created. This right can be waved, and in the case of most mangas, the author passes on this right to the publisher in exchange of money. In other words, the author sells the manga to the publishers. Since scanlators have, in no form, a consent of copyright holder, the publisher, it is an infringement of copyright.

There are however, exceptions for manga.

There is a notion of "fair use" and is a legally given right under some nations such as the USA. Fair use allows you to use an image to identify a certain media. It can only be applied in the event that a non-copyright version cannot be attained with a reasonable effort and that the subject requires a image as an identification tool. Other purposes do exist, but identification is the most commonly used purpose. Additionally, fair use requires that the image being distributed is of "low quality". For example, when talking about Coca Cola, you may use their logo in a report to outline that it is the logo of a Coca Cola company. Alternatively, you could be talking about "naruto volume 1" and have a cover of volume 1. However, having each page, especially in high quality, would not be protected under fair use.

Another big exception is in "fan usage" (note: not legal term). Most publishers give all fans a certain degree of freedom in using their intellectual property. Sometimes, this is written publicly, and sometimes, it is not expressed at all - in which case, they show themselves to be doing so by not suing everyone that's using their intellectual property (though, this is a really poor way to ascertain of such stand). From characters, images, speech, and etc. fans are given the right to use them, draw them, etc. So, if you post a screenshot of an anime or a fan art of a character on your website, you are often legally covered under fan use given that the publisher has said so. Again, as limits are put in place, putting the entire anime chapter on your website is not covered. The "fan usage" is very loosely compiled and dependent of company and actually written out in a very very long legal document, so, saying where is the limit of such usage is hard to say. But usage of sampling from here and there (ie, a page from here and there, or a short clip from here and there) are usually covered. As this (though often unexpressed) usage is almost always a superset of fair use, any time you use an intellectual property owned by a manga publisher, you are likely using it under fan usage.
If you want to see an example of one of these usage rights in written form, try reading your EULA of games, they almost always have some written in there.

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