Copyright Infringing Doujinshi Allowed at Comiket? A manga artist's "tacit license".

I contributed to a column titled, before.

At this time, I had the opportunity to interview the manga artist Ken Akamatsu.

I remember learning a tremendous amount about copyright law, creative common license, child pornography laws, etc. before the interview.

Since then, I have been doing a lot of research and writing my own views (yet I have not been able to review up to the latest revision).

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Mr. Ken Akamatsu has announced his intention to run for election to the House of Councillors from the Liberal Democratic Party.

I was a little relieved to hear that Mr. Akamatsu would be the best person to handle this problem.

But I'm also thinking, 'The Liberal Democratic Party.... It's going to be tough to make it in there,' I think.

The LDP is a hydra-like monstrosity with a myriad of heads: on the right, more radical than neo-Nazis, and on the left, a far left that even the JCP refrains from.

This is a party that usually works in isolation, but when it comes to the election campaign, the myriad heads become one -- doing whatever it takes to win.

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By the way, I have given the prize to one person who applied for it, as mentioned last week.

Just to report.