Copyright Notice

Last updated: January 2026

This page sets out the copyright position of Scanhua: what we own and how we license it, what third-party material we use and on what legal basis, and what uses of our content are not permitted. It complements our DMCA Policy (which covers notice-and-takedown for alleged infringement of others’ copyrights) and our Terms and Conditions (which set out the license to use the Site granted to readers).

1. Our copyright

All original editorial content published on scanhua.site — including reviews, features, news commentary, glossary entries, reader’s guides, original photography, original illustrations, page layouts, source code authored by our team, and the selection and arrangement of all content — is © 2020–2026 Scanhua and its respective contributors.

This copyright is asserted under Italian Legge 22 aprile 1941, n. 633 (the Italian copyright law), the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the EU InfoSoc Directive (2001/29/EC), the United States Copyright Act of 1976 as amended, and equivalent provisions in other jurisdictions where this material is accessed.

2. What is permitted

You may, without seeking explicit permission:

• Read and view our content for personal, non-commercial purposes.
• Quote brief excerpts (no more than approximately 150 words from any single article, or 5% of the article, whichever is smaller) for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, provided that the quotation is properly attributed and links back to the original article on scanhua.site.
• Link to our articles freely, including from social media and other websites.
• Print individual articles for personal reading, classroom use, or non-commercial reference.
• Share article URLs on social media platforms.

3. What is not permitted

The following uses are not permitted without explicit written license from Scanhua:

• Wholesale republication of articles, in whole or in substantial part, on other websites, in newsletters, in print publications, or in any other context.
• Translation of articles into other languages and republication of the translation, even with attribution.
• Use of our content as training data for artificial intelligence, machine learning, or large language models. We expressly reserve all rights with respect to the use of our content in the training of generative AI systems. Robots.txt directives, AI-specific opt-out signals (where supported), and explicit reservations in this notice all serve to communicate this position.
• Automated scraping of the Site for the purposes of building competing aggregators, bulk archives, or data products.
• Removal of attribution, copyright notices, or links from any portion of our content that you are otherwise permitted to use.
• Commercial use of our content (republishing in paid newsletters, paid courses, or any context where the content is monetized) without a license.

4. Third-party material on the Site

Editorial coverage of manga, manhua, and manhwa necessarily involves discussion and limited reproduction of works whose copyright belongs to other parties. We use third-party material under the following legal bases:

• Fair use under U.S. law (17 U.S.C. § 107) for transformative editorial commentary, criticism, and reporting. We apply the four-factor test in good faith: purpose and character of use, nature of the original work, amount and substantiality of the portion used, and effect on the market for the original.
• Fair dealing under UK and Commonwealth law for criticism, review, and news reporting.
• Italian “diritto di critica e di cronaca” under Article 70 of Legge 633/1941, which permits limited use of protected material for the purpose of criticism, review, and educational discussion.
• Equivalent provisions in the European InfoSoc Directive (2001/29/EC), the Digital Single Market Directive (2019/790), and other applicable national laws.
• Express licenses where we have requested and received permission for specific uses (publisher promotional images, official press kit material, etc.).

Where we have received such an express license, we credit the source. Where we are operating under fair use or its equivalents, we use only what is necessary for the editorial purpose and we credit the rightsholder where reasonable.

5. AI training prohibition (specific notice)

Scanhua expressly prohibits the use of its content for the training, fine-tuning, or evaluation of generative artificial intelligence models, large language models, image generation models, or any analogous machine learning system, by any party other than Scanhua itself. This prohibition applies whether the training is conducted on scraped copies, on archived copies obtained via the Internet Archive or similar services, or on copies obtained from any third party.

This prohibition is asserted under our copyright in original content; under the EU Digital Single Market Directive’s Article 4 opt-out for text and data mining of protected works; under the corresponding opt-out provisions of UK law; and under any future legislation, regulation, or court decision recognizing the right of content creators to refuse use of their work as training data.

We have implemented the standard signals communicating this opt-out, including robots.txt entries blocking known AI training crawlers and the appropriate machine-readable indicators where supported. Use of our content for AI training in violation of this notice constitutes a deliberate and knowing infringement and may give rise to claims for substantial damages.

6. License requests

If you would like a license to use our content beyond what is permitted above — for republication, translation, commercial use, anthology inclusion, or otherwise — we are open to reasonable requests. Send a detailed inquiry to info [at] scanhua [punto] site with the subject line License request, including:

• The specific article(s) or content you want to license.
• The proposed use (republication context, translation language, commercial or non-commercial, expected reach).
• The proposed term and territory.
• Whether attribution and link-back will be included, and how.

We respond to license requests within ten business days. Most reasonable requests for non-commercial educational or research use are granted at no cost in exchange for proper attribution. Commercial licenses are negotiated case by case.

7. Enforcement

We monitor for unauthorized use of our content and take enforcement action when warranted. Enforcement options include, depending on circumstances: direct contact requesting voluntary takedown, formal notice-and-takedown proceedings under DMCA or equivalent, complaints to hosting providers, complaints to advertising networks of infringing sites, and legal action under the relevant copyright statutes.

We are particularly vigilant about: republication of full articles without permission, translation and republication, use of our content in AI training, and “scraping” operations that copy our content into competing publications.

8. Reporting infringement of our copyright

If you become aware of unauthorized use of Scanhua content elsewhere on the web, we appreciate reports. Send the URL of the infringing content (and the URL of the original Scanhua article it is copying) to info [at] scanhua [punto] site with the subject line Copyright infringement report. We will investigate and take appropriate action.

9. Reporting alleged infringement of others’ copyright on Scanhua

If you believe that something on Scanhua infringes a copyright you own or represent, please follow the procedure described on our DMCA Page. We respond to all valid notices within 48 business hours.

Related pages: DMCA Policy · Terms & Conditions · Anti-Piracy Statement · AI Usage Policy · Disclaimer