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You may have noticed a few changes around here at YaoiSuki. That's because we've moved to a new host, and in the process upgraded and altered a bunch of our features (most notably: embedded wiki and better forums). Unfortunately, we lost our user database in the move, so those of you who were signed up will unfortunately need to sign up again. It's a pretty painless process though!
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Or, Maybe There Wont Be More Word From CMP AND also some Non-CMP News |
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Written by Nikki Green
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
Another news round up. It feels like there have been floods of news items for the past few weeks. Hopefully it will slow down and we can focus on just enjoying yummy smut again. Somehow, I doubt that's going to happen soon. Anyway, we will try to keep a good balance between keeping people up to date and not spamming you with too many updates :)
On the Yaoisuki LJ Community Gynocrat pointed out a statement printed on Journalista
“We do not comment publicly on licensor issues.”
- John O’Donnell,
Central Park Media managing director, responding
to my email query regarding claims
by Japanese BL publisher Libre that CPM
was publishing their work without a license
And then she goes on to point out: "No offense, but that's all they've done, at every con this year". Which is very true.
In my previous round up I missed this bit of discussion over Icarus Comics. There is another post on the Icarus Comics blog here.
And if you are sick of hearing about CPM, here is an interesting interview with Hikaru Sasahara, CEO of Digital Manga, Inc. He talks about some discussions he has had with yaoi mangakas about why girls like yaoi.
From the Juné Blog.
Also, this press release caught my attention. It says "Mark McClelland and Seunghyun Yoo use the Japanese practice of Yaoi to examine current legislation of child pornography." An abstract of the article is here
I purchased a copy of this article, titled "The International Yaoi Boys' Love Fandom and the Regulation of Virtual Child Pornography: The Implications of Current Legislation" from Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of National Sexuality Resource Center, which is a journal of The University of California. Yeah, say that fives times fast. Anyway, my reflections on said article are below the jump.
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The authors start off talk about yaoi as necessarily involving pornography with one underage participant. They do move away from that later in the article. They write "Yaoi, despite its depiction of characters who would be considered underage, is permitted in the United States under the First Amendment right of freedom of speech as long as the access of minors to sexually explicit yaoi materials is restricted; however, yaoi is absolutely illegal in some other jurisdictions, such as Australia and New Zealand." (P. 94, vol. 4, No. 1)
Overall, the article is fair and interesting. My one complaint is that the article lacks a clear definition of yaoi. I expect many regular readers of this journal are not familiar with the term. I know that the definition of yaoi is debatable ... and debated often. That is all the more reason to for the authors to tell readers how they would define the term. In absence of a clear definition, a reader is left to draw their own conclusions about yaoi fans that, at the very least, don't apply to me.
The article provides some hard, if old, data on yaoi sales in Japan. I would recommend this article to those of you who like to debate yaoi legalities. The article goes on at length about the legal ins and outs. It does call for study into the behavioral effects of yaoi fandom. However, the article does cost twelve bucks. You have to pay to download it.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 March 2007 )
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