In the yesterdays's debate I tried to make a point that Omo never mentioned any kind of "open-source anime", and that it's nothing but a distraction which Avatar trotted out. Making copyright laws in the U.S. sane is essential for the proprietary media industry's well-being, because it is eaten from the inside by its own incumbents. One sign of it is how widespread violations are. If you aren't convinced by NHK (Dennou Coil) stealing from Geneon (Haibane Renmei), please have a look at this:

In the advertisement for RACS, a character is holding a P-chan. I have to wonder if Robert had paid ViZ for the righs to use the likeness.