04-11-2006, 01:16 AM
fastsixty6 Wrote:Okay, so we got unpractical laws then it seems in HK.
These companies buy the rights to reproduce to the owner of the material, and then from there on out the company that bought rights to reproduce it, make all prophet.
Second question. When you buy thing Region 1 (America) do the creators of the anime get royalties from that? Basicly, there are some anime that I would like to support and others I may not care to. Kinda walking the line on being supportive of good anime and unsupportive of bad.
From the dvd's you buy here, zero $$ goes to the creators. They basically buy an R1 set, rip it and print their own or they get the series from another source like TV. All the money they get by selling them goes into their own pockets.
Second question. I think like Puppet Master says, the R1 companies buy the rights to sell the show in america for a period of time. They pay a licensing fee to the creators and maybe royalties. But financial numbers are extremenly hard to get for the anime shows. I've rarely seen numbers for licensing and royalties. I personally don't really care about the creators getting money. I think the high prices you pay in america and europe are their fault.
Anime is known for its cheap production costs. All those still shots and camera work make for less frames that need to be painted. Then they make money by showing it on tv in Japan and selling the dvd's there and merchandise. I think at this point they must have made back the cost of the show. But then they go selling it to R1 companies for, what i think are are very high prices and that results in US companies selling the dvd's for $20 per 3 eps. The R1 companies also make money out of merchandise and TV broadcast.
Somewhere in this story there is someone who gets alot of money. Because the numbers are so hard to get I don't know wether they live in Japan or america.