Japan News

Tezuka Manga to be Digitized: Starting this month, Tezuka Productions will start releasing digitized version of Osamu Tezuka's manga.

Manga Artists Wins Case Against Manga Uploaders: A group of 11 manga artists, including well-known artists such as Tetsuya Chiba and Takehiko Inoue, has won a lawsuit against 2 Japanese men who uploaded and sitributed manga on the internet. The two uploaders will be paying 20.5 million yen for infringing the manga artists' copyright.

Kazuo Koike Establishes New Copyright Company: Lone Wolf and Cub author Kazuo Koike has established a new company called Kazuo Koike Gekiga Sonjuku Co., Ltd. to help protect the copyright of Japanese manga from not file-sharers, but big companies who uses manga in movies without permission.

Serialization Updates:

Young Sunday No.42 (9/20)
Starting:

• "Akatsuki no Aegis" (Aegis in the Dawn) by Yoshihide Fujiwara

Comic ZERO-SUM October issue (8/28)
Starting:

• "Carnival" by Mikanagi Touya
  Ending:
• "Dawn Tsumetai Te" by Ueda Shinshuu
• "Tokage" by Haibara Yak

U.S. News

DMP Confirms Robot Discontinuation: DMP confirmed on its new MySpace blog that future volumes of Robot will be discontinued.

MangaNEXT Adds Three More Guests: Three more guests will be attending this year's MangaNEXT: Jason Thompson, Hiroki Otsuka and Mari Morimoto.

Inside Scanlation - TYPE-MOON

11 mangaka vs 2 men uploaders and won...scary.

I'm not really interested in Robot, so just happy to know DMP didn't drop any other titles into "Licensing hell"

It's news like these that i check Baka Updates news regularly~~~

oh god that is scary.... howd they find out about them uploading? cuz i wanna nooe more about this case....

Well, they were distributing the manga from a website (and I think were charging people, or was that another case), so it wasn't that hard to track 'em down.

Inside Scanlation - TYPE-MOON

I see Manick has initiated plan Alpha-12.........

[color=green]Life, what would it be without so much wrongs and rights?
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[color=red]Star Trek XI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZiR-NETDr0[/color]

It doesn't say anywhere that they were charging people.... So I guess they just got caught.

I was talking about this, 11 artists and some manga uploaders who charge people for manga. Can't tell if the two case are the same though.

Inside Scanlation - TYPE-MOON

no matter how much they sue they dont have the money

Poor guys.