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The original version of Shirobako which aired on TV was pulled off streaming
sites like CrunchyRoll due to rights issues ([see
ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-12-02/shirobako-
episode-6-streaming-suspended-due-to-rights-issue/.81672) for more info).
Since then, an edited version has been added to replace the original. What
were the issues, and what changes were made to the episode?


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What changes were made to Shirobako episode 6?


I've watched the original (now pulled) and the edited version (currently on
CrunchyRoll). The only change I noticed was with regards to the dialogue in
the play which Shizuka attends, about 11 minutes into the episode. The
original dialogue was clearly taken from Samuel Beckett's famous play
[_Waiting for Godot_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot). This
play is still copyrighted. To make things worse, as is described in the
Wikipedia article linked, Beckett was strongly opposed to having female actors
cast in the play, which the episode has. While the amount of the original it
used was quite small (there's only about 15 seconds of dialogue), Japanese
copyright law has no [fair use policy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use),
and so this could still be an issue.

The modified version only changed the dialogue during the play. Rather than
taking lines from the original, the new dialogue is a noticeable reference to
_Waiting for Godot_ , but not taken directly from the play. The animation did
not seem to have been modified, so the characters' lips didn't exactly match
the new dialogue; this will likely be fixed in the final DVD version.

The references to [_Space Runaway
Ideon_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Runaway_Ideon) seem to be
unchanged. Both the original and new version called it "Ide _p_ on". While
many initially suspected that these were the source of trouble, the _Godot_
references seem to have been the bigger problem.


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