> ownership. Especially FY fans, anime fans in 
> general, and especially concerning the Japanese 
> mentality in general not to be concerned about 
> the issue (doujinshi for a great example) of 
> reproducted anime works.

The article is wrong about that. Look at japanese 
website : if they have so few pictures, that's 
because copyright holders are very concerned.

Also, people who wrote that article forgot a few
things : In the case of FY, it's not because the 
author didn't said anything that it automaticaly 
mean it's allowed. For all that matter, the author 
is probably not the main person concerned : 
Copyright for things like anime belong mainly to 
the studio and a couple other companies.
Also, they totaly ignore the fact that there is 
several copyright holders usualy : It's not 
because the holder in Japan doesn't feel concerned 
that the company holding the right for USA won't 
be.

The situation resumes itself to : It's illegal but 
somethings may be tolerated. It's not granted and 
as all things tolerated, if there is too many 
abuses, the attitude of copyright holders may 
change.

Also, the situation is very different for cels :
when doing a forgery, it's not just the copyright 
that is involved. In fact, most of the discussion 
about copyright is pointless in the case we are 
speaking about : either the fancel is different 
enough from a production cel and nobody will feel 
bad that you copied his cel. Or it's a copy good 
enough to annoy the owner of the original cel and 
in this case, it's a forgery.

And to come back to how we "feel" about such 
things... Well, it's useless to "feel" : obviously
some so-called "fan artist" don't give a damn 
about politeness, ethic, intellectual prioriety 
and others people feeling. Telling them how we "
feel" about it won't change anything. That's why 
you directly speak about legal matters to them.
In this industry, many companies have the same 
kind of behaviour : they may set some rules and 
guidlines about how fan can use their copyrighted 
material and may let people do what they want as 
long as they "feel" it's ok. But if there is too 
much abuses, they will speak about laws. Then it 
won't matter that only some people abuse : it will 
affect everybody. As I already mentioned, it 
happened many times with fansub groups : Some 
companies didn't mind it as long as there wasn't 
too many abuses. But when the situation degraded, 
they simply