Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2021: Week 20
A scanlation is a fan-translated and fan-edited version of a manga (either professional or doujinshi), manhwa, manhua, or other comic. Ethics related to the practices or controversies surrounding scanlation, from the scanlation of licensed series to the standards and courtesy applied to scanlations of doujinshi, to practices such as scanlation poaching, are some topics of fannish discussion.
Views on when and how it is acceptable to scanlate something can vary among fans and fan communities, and where exactly the ethical line falls has been the subject of plenty of debate, with some scanlators attracting controversy or wank for violating certain unwritten rules.
Scanlation ethics have also evolved considerably over time. For more detail on the historical development of the scanlation community, see History of Scanlation.