Do you consider scanlations legal?
Member18 years ago
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Do you think that manga scans or scanlations are legal?
18 years ago
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hell no.
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18 years ago
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They are definitely illegal.
Member18 years ago
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Doesn't it depend on whether or not the manga has been licensed?
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Illegal, all. 🙂
18 years ago
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as long as they still exist, I DO NOT CARE♥
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18 years ago
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There's like numerous of topics discuss licensed/unlicensed legal/illegal issues hence come to scanlations/scanlators. >_>
18 years ago
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Quote from D
Doesn't it depend on whether or not the manga has been licensed?
Images are copyrights of their owners, so unless the owners say its fine for people to scanlate their work, it's illegal.
Of course, whether or not these companies/people care is a whole other issue.
18 years ago
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I would advise searching the forums, this topic has been discussed on every manga scanslation site on the web including this one.
18 years ago
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In general, if licensed in your country, yes. Uploading raw scans... yes. Illegal to upload raws, but rest is okay if not licensed.
18 years ago
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I believe we have already discussed this. Scanlations are illegal, even if you think they shouldn't be. Even if the manga isn't licensed in your country, the raws are illegally photocopied in the manga's originating country.
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Basically, scanlations aren't legal. Period. End of question.
18 years ago
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no, it's illegal, no matter what country your in...
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18 years ago
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It's not up to use to consider them legal or not anyways...and like everyone else said, there's another thread for this (no clue where it is though, but I know it exists)
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