It means that anyone can make content related to Serial Experiments Lain like animations, games, mangas and stuff like that without having a proper copyright permission for it.
"20 years may have passed since the premiere of the seminal Serial Experiments Lain, but fans haven’t stopped loving Lain – not one bit, especially as the series only gets more and more relevant in today’s world. Faced with such fan support, NBC Universal has taken the unprecedented decision to hand over their intellectual property almost entirely to fans – making Social Experiments Lain, as they describe it, ‘open source’ under the moniker Time To Live."
You can use her likeness for pretty much anything now, which is cool. Given how the internet works it doesn't change a whole lot on a practical level, but it legitimizes a lot of things that were previously gray.
I guess the big difference is that now creators can freely profit from the franchise, right? Selling a comic at Comiket is one thing but before they'd probably get dicked if they tried to sell a game or VN from their website.
Cooper Rivera
This just sounds like 'Public Domain' more than 'Open Source' but okay
Josiah Mitchell
So, they basically aren't enforcing the copyright?
Levi Taylor
That seems to be the idea, but there's still some limitations listed on the site this was announced on so we'll see how well it works in practice.
Camden Cruz
Open source is just a phrase, actual legal text is all that matters.
Kevin Morales
>Firstly, what Serial Experiments Lain going ‘open source’ actually means is that NBC Universal is giving full permission to fans to create derivative works, that is to say, works based on the original Serial Experiments Lain anime, PS2 game, manga, etc. This does not mean, however, that the company is giving fans full control over the series and it’s contents. >That means that, while creating official art and selling it, or perhaps making your own t-shirts and selling them might be okay, these must be your own creations and not taken directly from the show. Selling a screencap of Lain printed on a t-shirt, then, isn’t allowed. >Secondly, only fans are being given permission to create derivative works. The guidelines quite clearly state that other companies cannot use Serial Experiments Lain for profit, nor religious or political organizations. I suppose that means we won’t see Shinzo Abe on the campaign trail for the upcoming elections to the House of Councillors in an official LDP Lain bear suit, then.
You're not allowed to use official art. Someone could draw Lain and then that art could be used though. Also this thing only lasts until 2028 I think they said. I guess it wouldn't be a problem to stop using it when the time is up if he wanted to do that though.
Nolan Allen
Are there any manga/anime properties in complete public domain?
Blake Morris
Felix the cat
Luke Wright
Lovecraft
Jack Young
We should make our own Lain VN
Isaac Long
I only just fucking right now got that Cyberia is a god damn pun
what the FUCK
Adrian Turner
this, it could the the KS of 2019
but let's not kid ourselves , it would never be completed
That's not open source at all then. I hope the OSI sues them and makes them use a term that correctly describes what they're doing.
Anthony Lee
good to know this ip is offically dead
key the metal idol and dennou coil are better anyway
Easton Ward
public_use
Sebastian Bell
heh seems like you´re starting to understand
Jordan Powell
Doujins are already strictly speaking copyright infringement but companies ignore/allow them both because they are in a non-competing market and because they increase awareness of the brand.
Elijah Ramirez
SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FUKING PIECE OF SHIT
Thomas Davis
Why does NBC Universal own Lain?
Bentley Wright
Good question.
Kevin Ramirez
Sounds like it's a marketing stunt to generate buzz around Lain. Expect a Netflix reboot soon.
Robert Bell
Botnet.
Bentley Gray
Pioneer owned Lain. Pioneer became Geneon. Geneon got absorbed by NBC Universal Japan.
Sebastian Morris
Anything from before 1953 is public domain in Japan. So some stuff like Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka. They extended it in 2004 for cinematographic works, so we won't have anything added to the list for another 4-5 years
>it would never be completed That's the biggest challenge. Some sort of game could be great though, but it would have to be a type that can be easily expanded and not rely on a long plot.
Dylan Morales
that's not open source, that's a ZUN license
Ryder Richardson
Got hyped for nothing...
Ethan Cox
Expect Lain in Netflix soon!
Nicholas Collins
That would be cool.
Zachary Wood
They're making hype for Despera on Netflix! Btw nobody loves you.
>The guidelines quite clearly state that other companies cannot use Serial Experiments Lain for profit, nor religious or political organizations Well damn. If there isn't any potential for another studio to adopt the franchise then this is just lip service telling fans they can do what they already were and would do anyways.
How can get closer to Lain? I read SICP every day, my computer is water-cooled, I control the lights in my room with Navi (Alexa). What else can I do?
John Cooper
It's not Shinzo Abe, the Japan's prime minister. It's Yoshitoshi Abe, the character designer of Lain series.
Nathan Bennett
>Shinzo Abe on the campaign trail for the upcoming elections to the House of Councillors in an official LDP Lain bear suit lololofl
Hunter Baker
So if someone makes a mindbreak doujin is it CANON?
Josiah Price
>all the asshurt waifufags in this thread getting mad that Lain is now officially a freeuse gloryhole I'm going to slather her with disgusting precum from my hot sweaty dick and there's nothing you can do about it
Funny. Earlier today I was just talking about hiden CIA plots, secret MIT societies, UFOs, and talking to dolphins to communicate with the electronic fields of the Earth.
did it really stop anyone from producing fan goods before it went "open source"
I wish it was "open source" as in they released all the material used to produce anime such as cells, voices, etc.
Angel Rogers
I guess besides Lain herself being such a charming symbol, it's how relentlessly the series is willing to distress and overload the viewer with information. It's not unlike the later episodes of Evangelion stretched out for a whole series from the very start. It's taxing as far as anime goes, but I think also does a better job of laying out the pieces of its puzzle in a way that can be solved rather than deliberately omitting those pieces for mystery's own sake. It's mysterious but doesn't resent the viewer solving that mystery.
Cooper Phillips
Here is one of the oldest Yea Forums images of Lain I have. Vintage of about 2004.
Reminder that every thought we have will be open source once we open up the global electronic resonance network of Earth using the E.C.C.O. program. Open source will be the nature of all things. All things will connect through the wired. The Knights have predicted this. They have mitigated the uploading of human consciousness to a global network, but they only delay the inevitable. The time of Lain is coming. All shall be one in the wired. All shall be joined in love. Let's all love Lain.
A place where nobody dared to go The love that we came to know They call it Xanadu And now, open your eyes and see what we have made is real We are in Xanadu A million lights are dancing and you are, a shooting star An everlasting world and you're here with me, eternally Xanadu
that's like the one thing that you should want to happen though
Jayden Bennett
Xanadu, your neon lights will shine for you, Xanadu The love that echoes of long ago You needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived through all the tears It came to Xanadu A million light are dancing and you are, a shooting star An everlasting world and you're here with me, eternally Xanadu
The visions dancing in my mind The early dawn, the shades of time Twilight crawling through my windowpane Am I awake or do I dream The strangest pictures I have seen Night is day and twilight's gone away With your head held high and your scarlet lies You came down to me from the open skies It's either real or it's a dream There's nothing that is in between
Only if you're located in Japan and distributing domestically. For most of Yea Forums, this means nothing.
Christian Sanders
I stand corrected
James Sullivan
Why is there no merch? It's been 20 years and the anime is still has staying power, I'm just surprised no one has jumped on that. I do feel like people are still willing to dish out money for Lain
Why buy possessions in the real world when we just want to join the next world in the Wired anyway? Give up your body. Give to your cyber soul. Let's all love Lain.
most of them are just common art you can find online as wallpapers and such, but there are a couple odd ones I haven't really seen elsewhere and forgot existed
I got two to three boxes of VHS tapes from my old comic shop for like 40 bucks when he was clearing out his basement and closing. I forget if there was any Lain in there.
Oliver Howard
>open source
>本作品の二次創作物の権利を第三者に許諾することはできません。 You may not license rights to derivatives of this work [Lain]
It's a reference to this part: >political organizations
Ryan Diaz
Now I want to see Shinzo Abe draw Lain.
Angel Ward
bump
Justin Reyes
I'm gonna ask lainchan of they wanna work on a visual novel
Shouldn't be hard to throw something together in ren'py
Leo Collins
why so much love for a one-cour series with so few associated works? i enjoyed the show but i don't get how people are still talking about it so much on a board like this
Owen Adams
So she's literally one with the wired now?
Zachary Bell
Really? You don't get why the concepts and themes in Lain would appeal to a place like Yea Forums?
Robert Watson
It appeals to yurifags, waifufags, philosophyfags, lolicons, deepfags, occultfags, artfags, cinema snobs, 90’s animefags, aestheticfags, cyberpunkfags, gentoofags, Xphiles, and basket case egirls with daddy issues
Brayden Russell
Lain was never good. It was and will always be pretentious shit with a shitty art style and shitty waifu.
Christopher Murphy
Take it back.
Matthew Edwards
You don't seem to understand
Lucas Phillips
what are some of lain's spell cards?
Owen Carter
Because it's fun
Luis Gomez
2dep4u
Jack Ross
You can always tell the ADD/ADHD sufferers in these threads.
Colton Richardson
so if i wanted to make a lain game on ps5 with my own amateur dev team i could do it without permission?
Henry Parker
ok
David Brown
If you're Japanese. I feel like making a console game though requires cooperating with Sony, which would go against the limitation that this isn't for big companies to use. I don't know how the "indie" game stuff works on consoles though so maybe it's fine.
Camden Campbell
le bargain bin lain
Gabriel Howard
my satan.. dare i say... wired is on-lain
Isaac Perez
without ryutaro nakamura what's the point
Eli Stewart
Lain Season 2 when?
Robert Ward
A shame you seemed an honest man
Dominic Watson
>basket case egirls with daddy issues I feel this one.
Grayson King
But where is the source actually published? Or is there no source at all (animation files, game source code), and all that this means is "hey your doujinshi can be canon if you want"
Nolan Scott
I don't think this actually changes anything, but is just being used to try to encourage people to remember Lain for basically no cost, but might have some benefit to them.
