From: dareka@inter7NS.jp   
      
   FBaldeva@Yahoo.com wrote:   
   >   
   > I am looking for the Manga version of American Original Art, to   
   > collect. To date, I have not seen any original manga art on eBay or the   
   > rest of the Internet, for that matter.   
   >   
   > Maybe the laws in Japan are different, to where the company owns all   
   > the original drawings/artwork produced by the artists for a manga. In   
   > the United States, after a comic book goes into production, the   
   > original drawings get distributed between the penciller, the inker and   
   > sometimes the letterer.   
   >   
   > Perhaps the artist does not want to part with his/her art. That is   
   > highly unlikely, since that would mean all the Japanese manga artists   
   > are hoarding their art, that was returned to them by the company.   
      
   It seems at least mangakas think their original drawings   
   belong to them and I think, usually, they can rightfully claim   
   the ownership of what they have drawn for the companies that   
   use the drawings to publish their manga magazine or something.   
   The matter is that usually, if not necessarily, mangaka hold   
   the copyrights to their works and the publishers have only   
   limited rights to publish the works, whereas I think it is   
   often different cases in American comics like Superman where   
   it seems publishers or other things hold the copyrights. And   
   to make things worse, it seems publishers tend to keep the   
   original drawings [($B@8(B)$B869F(B or $B862h(B in Japanese] with them   
   because they often use the drawings again for future   
   publication like compiled edition. So, I think you can deduce   
   two reasons: 1) if your manga is popular, the possibility that   
   you need them to reissue the manga (and maybe it's not from   
   the original publisher) and maybe you would want to retouch   
   them for new publication is high. 2) the publisher has them   
   and they can't dispose of them at will.   
      
   >   
   > I would like to find art from some of my favorite Anime-turned-manga   
   > series' like Tenchi Muyo! or Sakura Taisen.   
      
   On the second thought, mangaka holds only partial copyrights   
   for the titles like the above. But I think these original   
   drawings are still the mangaka's.   
      
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