The reason why we have to do it this way, is because it removes responsibility from the JP devs, and it removes the government-added-costs. But one method is that the company is not to endorse the kickstarter translation, they merely turn a blind-eye to it (altho they still get the money). Basically there are a number of possibilities. So that is why I suggest, when you fail to negotiate an endorsed-project, you may have to go the unendorsed route. That is too much trouble to do correctly, And that they don’t have the capital to defend themselves in a law suit (by some effing women’s rights group) when the time comes. And this is even more true for oversea releases, which require compliance to a whole new set of laws that they are not familiar with. The network of regulations are so thick you need to hire an expert. So what they mean is, they don’t want to cause meiwaku （迷惑） to other devs by becoming the indirect catalyst to strengthening the Japanese laws against freedom of expression.īut of no relation to Rapelay, perhaps they are also afraid of the authorities and the regulatory bodies. There is no legal defence against a media lashback. CNN was writing in 2010 that Japan needs to “police game makers” against creating games with certain themes and contents, including adult titles in the “rape fantasy” genre. So he tried suggesting the idea to Terra (the translator of LuckyDog1) and Terra emailed the idea to Yura (one of the JP devs), but it was rejected.īut what I don’t understand with that reply, is that the Rapelay was a media backlash, not a legal one. I proposed this idea to Debono9, ‘what if you crowd-fund a license?’. (I know how some translators are interested in working for free, in which case the JP devs get 100% of the cut, which is even better of a bargaining position.) So I suggested, future approach should be to try to get the publishers to agree to receive 50% to 100% of the cut from the kickstarter. Not surprisingly, asking for money to translate unofficially is going to get axed quickly (although I still felt it was worth trying). I was talking to Debono9 about this idea.
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