37 points | by isaacfrond11 hours ago
The article doesn't use the word "subtitles" so its not clear what they provided. Did they create subtitles in another language like english or just a movie plot (elaborate) summary ?
Considering Japan has no fair use exception, doesn't movie reviews also reduce people's desire to pay fair price.
That's actually... kinda cool.
I can totally see how that should be copyright infringement (as opposed to just subtitle files).
But at the same time, I'd really like to try "reading" a movie that way, just to see what it's like.
https://www.allaboutthewaltons.com/merchandising/fotonovel.p...
The Star Trek ones were particularly popular.
people also enjoy the opposite experience. when my kid was 4-5, we watched these youtube videos which were just books. the camera hovered over a page of nursery rhymes, and the narrator would read them out loud. its fairly popular among immigrant parents who don’t speak good English but whose kids go to school in the us/uk etc. I wouldn’t know the meaning or how to pronounce several phrases in say Little Jack Horner sat in a corner etc. - so better to watch the book than read it.
I also follow a journalist on twitter who makes these videos of the new york times. So instead of subscribing to the newspaper and reading it, I am watching the newspaper being read by this journalist, who then adds some color to the topic as well, so I know what to think about this topic.
• quoting from and exploiting a work already made public fairly
and to the extent justified by the purpose of the quotations;
• private use, to a limited extent;
• reproduction in libraries;
• reproduction in school textbooks,schools and other educational institutions;
• use for those with disabilities; and
• reproduction for judicial proceedings.
https://www.aplawjapan.com/archives/pdf/file/GettingtheDealT...
I'd say a use by any other name is just as fair.
A bit strange to use "fair", which (to me) seems to be quite on a subjective side. Do people still think that the price is fair and only don't want to pay it? Or maybe some of them don't consider the price to be fair anymore :-)
Or can't you discuss movies?
So a bad critique of the movie, might also reduce people's desire to pay to see the movie. So with this kind of reasoning any information you give others about a movie (or other copyrightable work) could be problematic. Pretty strange stuff...
I did some searching and I got no result from news orgs I recognized. But like, it seemed correct.
Then again, if I remember correctly Nintendo tried to go after videos of people playing their games at some point. I guess it makes sense from that perspective.
> The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s. Sites were overwhelmingly free and if MP3 files were spotted by an alert surfer, it was almost considered rude not to download them, bandwidth permitting.
Not that you've used their work without paying.
Surely this is already ironed out, no? What are laws regarding transcriptions?
Yes this is ironed out. It's completely illegal, as it should be. No question about it.