From: LostRune+NGs@UofR.SlamSpam.net   
      
   Sat, 22 Oct 2005 6:08pm+0900, dareka@inter7.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   
   >   
      
   IIRC, the mangaka and the Japanese publisher share the copyrights,   
   though the mangaka may own his/her original characters and   
   thus can take it to another publisher for future comics.   
      
   Whereas Marvel and DC Comics own their characters and   
   only commission artists to work on them (i.e. work for hire),   
   so those artists don't own anything.   
      
   Laters. =)   
      
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