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Salil Mehra on Copyright, Control and Comics

I somehow missed this: Copyright, Control and Comics: Japanese Battles Over Downstream Limits on Content by Salil Mehra — an interesting paper about downstream limits on Japanese content over at SSRN. A quote from the abstract:

[...] the erosion in downstream control has coincided with stunning growth of the Japanese comic medium as a worldwide export, a notable contradiction to the common assertion of the U.S. copyright industry that stronger copyright protection must necessarily yield more creativity.

This is not the first time Mehra writes about Japanese manga and copyright. Also check out his fine 2002 article Copyright and Comics in Japan: Does Law Explain Why All the Cartoons My Kid Watches are Japanese Imports?.