@techreport{japananimemangagenaistatement2025,
  title = {Japan anime and manga industry joint statement on generative AI},
  year = {2025},
  institution = {Japan Cartoonists Association and Association of Japanese Animations (English coverage: Animation Magazine / Anime News Network)},
  url = {https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/10/aja-reports-record-year-for-japanese-anime-issues-genai-statement/},
  abstract = {In October 2025, eighteen anime and manga industry organisations in Japan, led by the Japan Cartoonists Association and the Association of Japanese Animations, issued a joint statement asserting that generative AI operators must obtain rights-holder consent at both the training and generation stages. The statement singled out OpenAI's Sora 2 by name, criticising its capacity to produce Ghibli-style images without permission as an infringement of creative rights. The statement is Japan's most authoritative industry-level position on generative AI to date, and functions as a non-Western counterpart to the US union AI positions already held in the repository.},
  keywords = {ip-and-copyright, labour-and-workforce, sector-guidance},
  note = {AI \& Animation Education Knowledge Base}
}