The doujinshi market in Japan demonstrates that a robust transformative fan culture can flourish despite technically violating copyright law, with over 33,000 circles of creators and 450,000 Japanese attending biannual conventions, suggesting legal protection of derivative works is not necessary for their creation.
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“More than 33,000 'circles' of creators from across Japan produce these bits of Walt Disney creativity. More than 450,000 Japanese come together twice a year, in the largest public gathering in the country, to exchange and sell them.”
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