Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-22746699-20130824012827/@comment-5951231-20130825020700

Titanollante wrote: You're right Bioniclezilla, Disney IS one of the biggest supporters of lengthening Copyright to eons long time, you know why? Because Walt Disney is dead, the expiration for all of their copyrights creeped up on them every time but they just slipped a couple of billion dollars to greedy congressmen to expand the time copyright lasts, which went to being from around 20 years and has escalated to the author's life + 70 years, and it will continue to go on. Walt Disney doesn't need the money, he's been dead for decades! It's just greed. Greedy greed.

Toho are also being a bit of arses, since they have taken down fan videos and other stuffs on YouTube and such. Toho is very cool but taking down fair use is... why. I believe that Godzilla's copyrights will last many more years, but on stuff like Godzilla, I personally wish it had copyrights forever for collectibles and just so no one like Roland Emmerich makes more of their "real version of Godzilla". So, just so millions of directors in the future don't go 1998 on us and our descendants behinds. Toho at least doesn't support SOPA... which is good.

Toei Co Ltd is cool with copyright too if it's their toku stuff. (not so much for their anime)  If you download from a torrent and don't put it on Youtube or any streaming site, they don't bother you or the fansub group about it unless it gets an official release in the U.S. like Kamen Rider The First or Kamen Rider V3.

They do get a bit aggressive if you stream it, but I see them as fair as they do not want to attack fans unless they do something really wrong like torrent and sell their products on the black market.

They want to make money but are understanding that some of the fans do not have access to their material because they live in another country and the fanbase is, in their minds, too small to make a profit off of (for now).