Re: [dvd-discuss] Slightly OT - Japanese copyrights

["Ernest Miller" <ernest.miller(at)aya.yale.edu>]

The dialogue is copyrighted.  Subtitles would be a derivative work.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noah silva" <nsilva@atari-source.com>
To: <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Slightly OT - Japanese copyrights


> By the way, this could be made easier with electronic media.  I'll use the
> example of a VCD.  Copy the .DAT (MPEG VIDEO) file to your hard
> disk.  Edit it to add the subtitles.  Do a diff against the original to
> produce a patch.  Just sell your patch.  You could sell it with or without
> the original video.  You aren't trafficing in modified videos then, just
> the difference between the video and the subtitled version.  Even if the
> file is rather large, I am sure it would still be small enough to fit on a
> CD.
>
> The end user could apply the patch to the [original] DAT file [on his
> CD] and make his own subtitled version.  He could even burn a new VCD by
> copying the original but substituting in his new DAT with the subtitles.
>
> I'd like to see someone try to sue me for supplying a .diff file to add
> subtitles to something ;)
>
>   -- noah silva