TY  - RPRT
TI  - Japan anime and manga industry joint statement on generative AI
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/10//
PB  - Japan Cartoonists Association and Association of Japanese Animations (English coverage: Animation Magazine / Anime News Network)
AB  - 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.
KW  - ip-and-copyright
KW  - labour-and-workforce
KW  - sector-guidance
UR  - https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/10/aja-reports-record-year-for-japanese-anime-issues-genai-statement/
LA  - en
ER  -