Go, Read: Japan, Ink in Wired

I don't like to quote huge blocks of text as a matter of course, but sometimes the article says it way better than I could. Also, I haven't read it yet:

"Now think back to our American lawyer -- the one lying on the cement floor. After the smelling salts arrived, he no doubt would have picked himself off the ground, thumbed a cease-and-desist letter on his BlackBerry, and phoned in a temporary injunction to close down the joint. Imagine Disney's response if some huge comics convention in St. Louis or Houston were selling exquisitely rendered, easily identifiable comic book versions of Mickey Mouse and Goofy falling in love. Picture the legal department at United Feature Syndicate hearing about someone selling $6 books that show a buxom teenage Sally and a husky teenage Linus canoodling on a beach. The violations at Super Comic City were so brazen and the scale so huge -- by day's end, some 300,000 books sold in cash transactions totaling more than $1 million -- that just about any US media company would have launched a full-metal lawsuit to shut the market for good.

Go here for Daniel H. Pink's article that will likely have people talking, at least for a few days.

Gene Kannenberg points out that anyone talking manga in Wired will have way more talking points than Pink's article. For the full suite of subjects and links to them, go to Kannenberg's launching-point post.
 
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