a large portion of the work on display is fan created. maybe its a manga done by a secondary school's manga club. maybe its a group of friends who are manga fans.
who got together to make their own manga thats based on their favourite manga. it could have been samurai X. and their version could have a black girl as samurai X. or maybe it could have been a homosexual version. or an hentai version. or one with a different take altogether - maybe its told from the view of kauru instead of kenshin?
and all that culture would be impossible in a normal copyrighted world. because they would not have permission from the creators of the original works to base their derivatives on.
in uk, morrissey had this to say about EMI :
"Morrissey does not approve such releases and would ask people not to bother buying them. Morrissey receives no royalty payments from EMI for any back catalogue, and has not received a royalty from EMI since 1992."we do not know how much of what we pay when we buy a cd from hmv actually goes to the artist. it'd help if every artist had his or her own website to sell their work directly to fans.
all in all, we have to realise that a copyright is a temporary distribution monopoly granted by the public to the artist to help him or her fund the next creation. the moment a work is copyrighted, it belongs to the public - the copyright grants only the distribution rights to the creator for a limited time - when the time is up, the work will be fully owned by the public. so that society will gain from the enjoyment of more creations. note that people created works even before copyright was invented. and artists who did not want to relinquish ownership of the work to the public can choose not to publish a work. copyright is supposed to encourage more creation.
if copyright starts to fail to encourage the creation of more works, then society should look at whether copyright is useful at all in its current form, and change it, or even remove it.
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