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Well actually the people who created the subtitles were most likely breaking copyright law themselves if they didn't have explicit permission from the movie own
by mapleoin 13y ago
Well actually the people who created the subtitles were most likely breaking copyright law themselves if they didn't have explicit permission from the movie owners. Subtitles are themselves derived work.
- sillysaurus 13y agoMaybe, but what they were doing is harmless in every sense of the word, and law is about repairing harm.
- mapleoin 13y agoAnd I did not say that it wasn't. Nor did I say if the law is just or not, but simply clarifying that transcribing/translating movie dialog is breaking copyright law.
- mseidl 13y agothat's such a bromanian answer...
- brazzy 13y agoIt's actually not harmless because it undermines geographically exclusive distribution licenses. European distributiors pay a lot of money for the rights to sell Hollywood movies in Europe and are understandably annoyed when people then import movies from the USA and watch them with crowdsourced subtitles. Arguably, the benefit to consumers should outweigh the harm to license models, but that's not what the law says, currently.