My position: Linking to (or embedding) fan subs or scanlations should not be allowed, but as you said, benign mention of them should be fine. "____ fansub said this, but ...?"
@Mysticial Here's an example where I linked to a post on animesuki (which is a very questionable site in terms of copyright), and the post is by a fansubber, but the post itself isn't violating anything:
There is no mention of the exact contents of the notebook in the original VN or the anime. There are a couple of short sequel games which I have not gone through, so in principle there could be some explanation there, but given how important this is I doubt they'd want to relegate it to a side-ga...
@Eric I don't think so. AFAIK we need to follow US law, but other countries we don't need to worry about. Admittedly that's just from what I could glean off of Wikipedia's anime articles.
@Eric here's the short for the DCMA: if you are a foreign copyright holder and think you might ever want to sue in the United States for infringement, you should register your works with the USCO and keep those registrations up to date
As per discussion in chat, we feel that meta tags are affecting SEO traffic to the site.
Our reasoning is that since SE automatically appends tags to the title, if none of the tags are already in the title, it will take the most popular tag and add it to the title.
This is great if there's only...
As part of the 4th chat discussion, we covered the status of meta tags.
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The questions we discussed are:
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@AnnaLear So the question are we allowed to link to sites that violate copyright. For example, an answer references a fansub forum. But the fansub group facilitates illegal content distribution.
looper's answer is correct but not quite complete. This answer will be based on the manga, mostly because I don't immediately have access to the anime, but also because I'm not sure how much of this is explained in the anime. Kanon's arc is flags (aka chapters) 7-10 in the manga.
As the other an...
I personally think it's fine as long as the fansub/scanlation isn't the subject of the question or answer, if ppl do cite them as sources they should be tertiary at best
We provide instructions for reporting copyright violations directly to us at the end of the Terms of Service. This allows the copyright holder to reach us if they want to dispute anything.
@Deidara-senpai They can't do a thing. The worst case is that they block anime.SE Then it boils down to risk evaluation. Allow content and risk loss of ad revenue from getting blocked?
@AnnaLear I think that answers it pretty much completely. We should allow these things as long as it's relevant. If it's irrelevant we shouldn't allow it anyway.
So far as your site policy goes, you should decide what you all are comfortable with. Some sites, for example, explicitly disallow questions about hacks or pirated software.
If there is a problem with some type of content that is regularly posted here, we'll come talk to you about it and adjust the site's policy at that point.
I think that's a good policy to have. Like Krazer said, as long as it's not the subject (like: "Where do I find scanlations of _____ manga?"), it should be permitted or at least considered.
Far as embedding clips of Youtube videos goes... youtube will probably be way more on the ball than anyone else about shutting down anything that violates copyright. :) With that in mind, I suggest discouraging answers that are nothing but a Youtube link.
@AnnaLear I agree on both points. They should definitely be a last resort as somewhat-copyright-issue-ish stuff is often removed. More content-based answers are always better.
As part of the 4th chat discussion, we covered the status of meta tags.
Examples of meta tags are:
characters
character-abilities
variations
plot-explanation
The questions we discussed are:
Do we need them? Do they contribute anything?
If not, should we just eliminate them. (and blacklist ...
