Shogakukan brought the claim to the Tokyo District Court when the author of Kengan Omega, Yabako Sandrovich, had flagged a certain website that was posting information and pictures on 63 chapters that had not yet released on Shogakukan’s MangaONE digital manga service prior to the release of the chapters.
The website information of the owner of a certain “spoiler site” has been ordered by the Tokyo District Court to handed to Shogakukan and the creators of Kengan Omega to claim damages.
A Tokyo District Court ruled last Friday that “spoiler sites,” websites that post images and story sections from leaked and unreleased manga chapters, infringe on the copyright of the author and publishing company.