National / Crime & Legal Jan 31, 2022
Four leading companies are accusing web infrastructure company Cloudflare of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
National / Crime & Legal Sep 17, 2019
Four Japanese publishers have filed a damages lawsuit with a court in New York against several U.S.-hosted websites that allow visitors to view manga, alleging "massive" copyright infringement. The publishers say that the websites, which offer content in Japanese, are successors of the now-shuttered pirate ...
National Jan 29, 2019
Shueisha starts free online distribution of popular manga in English, except in East Asia
Comic book publisher Shueisha Inc. has started free online distribution in English of some of its popular series in the hope of tapping new markets. Through the Manga Plus website and app, which will also be available in Spanish in coming months, readers will be ...