XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc, it.arti.fumetti   
   From: arnoldkim@optonline.net   
      
   "Andrew Hollingbury"  wrote   
   in message news:Xns970C6F176615Bandrewhollingburyori@163.1.2.7...   
   > "Hoshisato"  wrote in news:1131788723.468965.325900   
   > @z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:   
   >   
   >> I'm pretty sure that mangaka use photos all the time for backgrounds   
   >> and poses; especially for sports manga I can see the importance to get   
   >> it right. The question is only if he had the right to use those   
   >> particular photos, otherwise I cannot see a problem with the practice   
   >> of using photos.   
   >>   
   >> My 2 yen.   
   >   
   > The only reason this is being brought up is because of Sueseki Yuki (if I   
   > got the name right?) who copied her basketball images for Flower of Eden   
   > from Slam Dunk and has had all her manga titles discontinued as   
   > punishment.   
   > Meanwhile, Inoue copies photos and continues to make millions.  Which one   
   > is worse?   
      
   The NBA photographs are moments of "real life as it happens" that the   
   photographer happened to capture, while Inoue's drawings are not.  There's a   
   difference there.  It would be no different than if he caught some NBA   
   footage on tape, paused it, and copied the still image.   
      
   Arnold Kim   
      
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