Recast: Chronologie du phénomène et réponse des compagnies

Hello
this is Crobidoll ^^

First of all, we really thank you for your attentions and supports like this
Also, we appreciate your efforts for Recast problem in various aspects, too.

For Recast, as you know, so many doll companies are damaged a lot suffering from those recasts
and we\'re doing lots of actions to prevent these Recasts now.

Recast is an illegal act infringing many doll companies\'s copyrights and their rights.

To make a new doll, we should spend a lot of time and efforts from a sculptor, makeup artists, costume designers, photographers and production staffs and customer management staffs altogether.
Recast just takes the results and benefits from us without all of these staffs\' efforts and time as above.
They don\'t distribute their profits with those who made the efforts to produce a doll.

As more people purchasing illegal products, more and more original doll authors are suffered and
if it is not possible to get proper reward for their efforts,
then it will reduce new doll production and even it will destroy doll business as a serious crime.

Crobidoll and other many doll companies are doing their efforts to make a legal action to prevent Recast now.
But, most of doll companies damaged are located in South Korea and Recast occurs in other countries.
Moreover, the vendors and consumers of Recast are spreaded in all over the world.
From these reasons, it needs more time and efforts to make a legal action.

The fastest and most clear method to stop Recast is not to buy those Recast products regarding these problems above.

It can\'t be appropriate reason to buy Recast Doll
such as doll companies don\'t make any clear actions or legal actions to prevent Recast (even it looks like that) or Recast products are much more inexpensive than original products.

And Recast and Second hand market is totally different.
Legal products\' second hand market is the right of a customer and it\'s a part of market economy.
But Recast is a crime.

Recast makes so many damages for doll companies and,
so many people are suffering from this crime.
Above all, the most important thing is that\"Recast = a crime\" .

To buy a recast product promotes illegal actions and,
if a person buy a recast product with knowing that it\'s an illegal product and infringes the copyright, then this person participates in this crime, too.
We believe that if you know this is a crime, no one wants to accept or help these crimes at all.

We hope that our customers won\'t get any damages from these Recasts with knowing that Recast is a crime, please.

Most of all, we truly thank you for your cares for Recast problem

Thank you very much
Have a good day again ^-^//

If there are any other questions, ask them on QA board or email, please

Always Thank you for your supports and big, big loves for CROBIDOLL >_<
We hope your happy 2014 with CROBIDOLL ~^-^*

Best regards,
CROBIDOLL

1. How recast has impacted the work in your company ?
Our selling amount has been sharply reduced to 1/3 .

2. Was it anything positive about recast for you ?
None

3. Have you made changes on the way you work ? (Hired less people, reduced your benefits, etc. ?)
We fired 50% of people and our selling amount has been reduced to 1/3 right now.
It is hard to develop new dolls and hard to sell new dolls even we release it. Many people bought recast products.

4. Do you have any legal way to stop recast ?

Recast products are made by structure which are not open to the public in china. Therefore, it is hard to give legal panalty in Korea. However, we have contacted with the people who also suffered from recast prodcuts in USA.
Most BJD company in korea have taken to the court and FBI in USA and waited their judement. Besides that, KOTRA(Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency) also help us to take this method to the Public Security Bureau in shanghai for inflicting severe punishment on the recast products.


5. What is impacting you the most : recast or second hand doll market ?
Recast gives worst impacting in the BJD market wordwide. If the recast product has not forbidded in next 5 years, then 90% of BJD company will be borken. Second hand doll market give good effect in the doll market.

6. If you had just a word to say to people who are hesitating between a recasted or a legit doll ( bought on your company or second hand one ) ?
Anyone who wants to collect nice BJD dolls and want to let carftsman to make BJD doll, then please do not buy the recast doll again. It is same to the illegal download to the movie. Anyone who connected with recast products will be suffered severe punishiment.
FBI's investigation is going to be ended. People who circulate recast products will serve 2~3 years for an infringement of copyright.

Thanks so much and have a nice day~
Dollmore abby =))

Dear Customer ;
Thank you for your inquiry.
We took your questions to consider and think for answers a while.
This is our reply to all questions. It might not please everyone, but we\'re very thankful to know someone is so much care about this issue


How recast has impacted the work in your company ?
- We would like to answer this question widely. As the most creative people has faced their problems about copying or reproduction or reclaim with their own creativity work, one could imagine how hardship it would be to create one work, how hurt they would feel to find person copying, how sad to see people supports those copy. It is not just a doll community or our company. It effects and impacts to all of designers in every jobs.

How it would impacted the work in company, firstly would be encouragement of designers. These make creativity might drop and designers would feel very sad to create a work, a beloved work. Even though it may be a hobby from one\'s point of view, they pour their hearts and hardship to create the work at their best effort.

Or let\'s set this in different field, as some of our staffs are also artists. In their own past experience of their friends, the copy might effects to artist directly to the point that they are very depressed to stop sharing or sell their artworks.
Possibly, this might effects directly to the company they work with, and make the company lack of creative people.


Was it anything positive about recast for you ?
- It is hard to find a reason to have positive thing about recast or a copy. Some might think if there is a copy from this person\'s work, that might means the person\'s work is popular enough to spread more of the works by recast or copy (cheaper products to get access easier to people?). From the point of creator, they\'d prefer a person to really love their works, rather than buying recast just to get their works.

Indeed, we all know well it is expensive hobby and we cannot avoid that.
But we want everyone to pause and re-think of the quality work you will get. The guarantee and customer service you will receive after the purchase. The value of your beloved thing you fought your way to gain it, do you proud of it? We cannot stop person to buy recast, we ask you only to consider the best thing for your own contentment and honor in hobby you love.


Have you made changes on the way you work ? (Hired less people, reduced your benefits, etc. ?)
- Of course there is a change on the way we work. We\'d do anything to best out our effort on our beloved work. To show and spread the true love of dolls. To make our dear customers acknowledge the power of creativity that a recast cannot take over or copy it. We highly value the person who love dolls just as same as us. We want to give them the best thing we can do for them.

At the moment DollClans is not very large scale company. All of staffs are person who loves this doll hobby. We work just like we are DollClans family and do everything for our customers as if they\'re one of our family too. All of our dolls we create just like our own children who we play with together everyday


Do you have any legal way to stop recast ?
- It is very hard to answer to this question. Normally we would do anything in a legal way to stop recast of our dolls. However we also need to ask cooperation of our dealers and dear customers to support the right thing. As the legal and laws in each country are different, the best method to prevent recast is, no sellers if no supporters.

We just wish and hope that person will value their own dolls as much as we do. And see the important of the creative work.
No creative, no work to buy.


What is impacting you the most : recast or second hand doll market ?
- Indeed, a recast. We could support person who purchase second hand doll as they own copyright products. They have full rights. We could help them if they have any problems regarding to products. However, to the recast, is a different story.


If you had just a word to say to people who are hesitating between a recasted or a legit doll ( bought on your company or second hand one ) ?
- We\'ve ever seen a photo that created by French artist regarding about recast doll issue. It is highly inspired us. As we replied to all of questions above, you might be able to imagine the differences between recast or legit dolls. At least, the quality of the doll, the service after purchase and support to creative people who will get encouragement to be able to continue their love to create more better works.

To us, buying second hand dolls is not a problem as we mentioned. They\'re legit dolls and we believe doll community all welcome these second hand dolls. At least, the doll has found their owner who loves and welcome them And you\'ve already supported the creative designers in your own way.



If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask us.
Thank you for your kind supports towards DollClans~!

Have a nice day~!
DollClans

Dear Nylh.

First of all, thank you for sharing your concern with us. We think illegal copying causes trouble for us to run our company. People who want original will get the original, but there are some who doesn’t care the originality. As for now, there are not much things to do about it.
In our present website and the website we’re currently making will show our opinion on illegal doll reproduction.

How recast has impacted the work in your company ?

I think it affects our workspace operation. We try to keep our creativity and our good quality, but if illegal copies try to be a genuine product, our products can be doubtful as well.

Was it anything positive about recast for you ?

I didn’t think about the positive effects. I don’t think there are any positive in recast.

Have you made changes on the way you work ? (Hired less people, reduced your benefits,
etc. ?)

It is true that our workspace has been reduced. Only the best members are left in making the doll.

Do you have any legal way to stop recast ?

Time-wise, space-wise, money-wise, it is difficult. We stop one, another one will make an illegal copy.

What is impacting you the most : recast or second hand doll market ?

Illegal copies don’t affect secondhand market very much. I try to make a good doll as much as possible. If I focus other things than making dolls, I loose my sight.

If you had just a word to say to people who are hesitating between a recasted or a legit doll ( bought on your company or second hand one ) ?

Where did the dolls you love came from? It came from the doll lovers like just like you. It is possible because there are you love the dolls than I do. The doll maker nicknamed \"DollShe\", is my mission as well as my burden. \"DollShe craft\" brand became what it is because there was doll lovers just like you. If you wish to purchase dolls that are made illegally, I don\'t have strength to make dolls any longer. In reality, I cannot afford to keep my workplace. Please protect my working environment so that I can create dolls comfortably.

Thank you for your deep concern.

Sincerely yours,
DollShe-Ki-yong
Master Sculptor & President of DollShe craft

How recast has impacted the work in your company ?

Recast has caused great stress on my company. The dolls I carry so far as I know have not yet been recast, but the impact has been great. There are many great artists whose dolls everyone wants, but now because of recasting, many of these artists have decided NOT to allow their dolls to be made by our factory. There also artists who work in the porcelain medium who wanted to begin making bjds in resin, but again, recasting has caused them to fear. This means less and less artist reproduction dolls for everyone! Many artists have decided to make only hand made, and to make only rarely. Recasting has caused this. This is not only bad for my company, but for all the people who love dolls. There are dolls that will now continue to be impossible to get because of recasting. We now all lose out!

Was it anything positive about recast for you ?

There is nothing positive about stealing!! When someone reproduces another persons work without permission, that is stealing. No debate! Stealing is stealing, nothing more. How can anyone say it is ok to steal from another person? NO, there is no positive in crime!
Have you made changes in the way you work? At jpopdolls we now have costs to copyright every artist and legal costs. This will result in higher costs of dolls! Because of recasting some companies have already closed. They are ALL small groups of artists with a website! Recasting has destroyed them. And the companies that stay open may begin to raise prices because of legal costs they must spend to protect themselves as well as fight recasting. Because of people who support recasts, prices will go up for all of us soon!!

Do you have any legal way to stop recast?

YES! All artists are getting USA copy rights and international copyrights on their work. They are learning to use DMCA forms to take down photos from websites. And now the Korean government is working with our law firm here in the USA and parts of the US government, to go after the recasters in China, and also all persons who promote, sell, trade recast dolls and their websites! By getting USA copyrights, artists and companies will now begin demanding photos be taken down from flickr, Facebook, forums, etc. They will also be able to go after individuals selling recasts for Intellectual property rights violations. It has taken a long time, a lot of funding, but now with government to government working together we will see results.

What is impacting you the most : recast or second hand doll market ?

The second hand doll market of legitimate dolls has never impacted the doll industry negatively. It has always been positive. People selling their dolls to those who want them or new people coming into the hobby, then buying other dolls creates a solid market place. This is always good. Recasting/counterfeiting is always bad.

If you had just a word to say to people who are hesitating between a recasted or a legit doll ( bought on your company or second hand one ) ?

Why would anyone want to buy a recast/counterfeit? Why would anyone want to be part of stealing from the people who create the dolls. Do you really want to slap those artists in the face and stab them in the heart, spit on them and insult them? That is not what this hobby is about. We are not about destroying the artists who create for us. Without them, we will have nothing to enjoy, nothing to create for, nothing to photograph, nothing to discuss and talk about. We will not need forums, there will be nothing new, just recast of recast of recast of recast! Recasting is dividing our doll world into two kinds of people, those who love dolls, respect artist, support the community and those who are thieves, who support thieves and who stab the artists in the heart!! Which one are you??