Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[Bentoki]

Eh, I don't view groups as owning that copyright. Right to Translation is owned by either the authors or the publishers (depending on the contract). It's covered in the Berne Convention.

Okay if the scanlators don't have the copyright to their own translation, then the authors or publishers do, then power uploaders clearly don't, so by mangadex's own rules, they, who were never involved at any point whatsoever clearly have no right uploading anything.

 

[BestBoy]

presumption

This is how I've always understood the situation. Their legal team received specific titles that violated the clause. They removed them immediately to avoid legal action. Titles were removed completely because their covers were part of the problem. Comparing it to the DMCA purge is accurate as titles were removed with no notice that time, as well. Only difference is the removal of pages because of the covers.

Banning users for making mass reports is the staff preventing you from cutting off your nose just to spite your face (but it's also rule breaking behavior). You want the content here, they want the content here (staff expressed disappointment on discord). They're just not willing to go to jail for you (literally from staff on discord "The immediate concern is not going to jail").

Take it from someone who's been here since the beginning. Users are making a mountain out of a mole hill here. This is smaller than the Jaimini's Box tantrum. This is smaller than the hacked site. This is smaller than MD being down for a year+. This is smaller than the DMCA purge.

so by mangadex's own rules, they, who were never involved at any point whatsoever clearly have no right uploading anything.

Users upload chapters of their own volition. Staff are free to work independently with user groups. That may be why you see staff upload chapters to MD. Telling staff that they can't scanlate anymore just because they volunteered to moderate comment sections would be stupid.

Good that you're here, what happened to the English chapters for Kumika no Mikaku? Your group scanlated and uploaded those chapters. Some folks were asking about it a page or two ago.

 

[seekermoc]

This is smaller than the Jaimini's Box tantrum. This is smaller than the hacked site. This is smaller than MD being down for a year+. This is smaller than the DMCA purge.

Ah, Jaimini's Box, now that was a huge drama clusterfuck.

And for the most part I agree with the rest. In the big picture, losing a handful of titles isn't a huge problem.

What is a huge problem is:

• the attitude NamiComi staff has towards the MD user community
• the hyprocracy of the staff's official communications on the matter
• the complete lack of transparancy regarding the whole affair
• the fact that the non-NamiComi MD staff seem to no longer be in control of their own community
• the fact that they (presumably) caved to UK legal complaints because MD is now a registered business in the UK (when did that happen and why?)
• and perhaps most importantly, the precedent this sets for the future

 

[Heika]

MangaDex is a UGC platform and upholds applicable law, including copyright law. This has always been the case, from removals like One Piece, Demon Slayer, and My Hero Academia earlier this decade, to the large removal in May 2025 and the thousands of removals since then. The company does not have data prior to April 2025, but anything since will be added to the Transparency Report in our Copyright Centre shortly: https://mangadex.org/copyright/transparency

Can you please stop trying to bullshit us, the copyright holders, and yourselves? 90% or more of the content on this site is pirated content that you have no legal basis to be hosting and displying, and you know it. If you actually followed through on all your talk, you wouldn't have a website.
I cannot believe you had the gall to actually make that post.