Welcome to the LDH family, I'll be your guide (...sort of.) This world it's totally different that the usually, they have some rules that you must try to follow. (And sorry for my poor english).
1- Give love to the group/band you want to follow and be respectful with their "brothers" (I mean,t he other groups in the company. I'm not telling that you must need to follow all of them, but don't be bad).
2- The most difficult thing here is the fact that the LDH it's kinda 'rude' about their media content (photos, videos, etc), specifically with the ones that are uploaded at mobile services such as TRIBE mobile, EXILE mobile, E-Girls mobile and LDH mobile, why? Because the content in this pages are moderated by suscriptions, so if you want to read blogs and watch special videos, you need to paid some yens for it (like 3dls per month and so on) and it's 100% copyrighted.
If you have a suscription:
— Don't upload the exclusive content to other 'public' pages such like twitter, instagram, tumblr, facebook pages or any other; this is because the LDH has stablished they will take legal actions against people who do it, but obviously this is kinda implausible. But you can lost your blog or account because of the copyright. Also, japaneses take really seriously the term of 'privacy' (I know you don't want to be scolded by a japanese fan, right? xD)
— But if you want to show off, do it by your own risk in private pages or stuff like that.
3- There's one thing I belive in 'If it's streamed on internet, it belongs to the internet', so you can use stuff like YouTube videos, samples or previews that 'are not' 100% copyrighted such as artist photo, covers, etc.
4- As a moderator for a few pages about LDH in spanish, I've learned that it's important to give credits to the ones who do an effort bringin us more audio/visual media, like magazine scans, full MV stream etc. So, that's important to specify your source always, for example: If you re-upload photos to your page, write the watermark on them, give links to the people or just clic the 'share' button. Always have this on your mind.
5- It's obvious that we, as overseas fans, have the need to download the music but despite of this, try to buy their album/singles, with only one or two you're doing the diference; they are humans too, so they eat and need clothes and also they need the earnings to keep doing music. And trust me, CDJapan is the best option.
— http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/
6- If you don't want to have any suscription, then follow your artist on their own SNS; twitter, instagram. It's free!
7- Enjoy. And if you're new, don't be shy to ask something about LDH groups to any other fan, we are kind♥. Oh, there are a lot of good fanbases too, they are 'hidden' but google and facebook will help you to find them.
I'm sure that other fans will agree with this, so, if you agree with this too, share this post and thank you for reading!
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