Two Tokyo company managers were arrested for infringing the copyright of manga magazines by posting images of their works on the Internet before they were released. In an interview with the police, it was discovered that the post had been posted on multiple sites. In response to police investigation, both men have denied some of the charges.
Musa Samir (36), who runs Japan Deal World LLC, a Tokyo-based anime-related goods sales company, and two other suspects were arrested in March last year for a popular manga serialized in Shueisha's magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. In addition to posting image data for viewing on the Internet before its release, he was arrested last month on suspicion of violating copyright law for duplicating images of a manga that had not yet been released, and was sent to the public prosecutor's office on the 5th.
This corporation was also referred to the prosecutor's office on suspicion of violating copyright law.
In this case, police interviews revealed that the images of the manga that had been reproduced had been translated into foreign languages, colored, and posted on multiple sites and social media.
According to the police, the two apparently purchased the magazine through a sales channel that was distributed in advance by the publisher in order to sell it all at once nationwide on the official release date, and the details of how they obtained the magazine were investigated. I am.
According to the police, in response to the investigation, the two denied some of the charges, saying, ``I have not made the images public.''