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

[Noah silva <nsilva(at)atari-source.com>]

What if you inserted frames with the subtitles between frames of the
movie?  It might be slightly flickery, but you would be able to see
both.  If they wanted to argue that, I think commercials would be illegal
too, since they insert other footage between parts of the movie ;)

 -- noah silva 

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Jeremy Simmons wrote:

> For an off topic thread this post seems to have gone right around the world.
> 
> Anyway, as far as subtitling works in Japan it appears to be governed by 
> Article 27 of the Copyright Law of Japan, (if you want to see the whole thing 
> then you might try 
> 
> http://www.cric.or.jp/cric_e/clj/clj.html
> 
> Article 27 reads
> 
> (Rights of translation, adaptation, etc.)
>  Article 27.  The author shall have the exclusive rights to translate, 
> arrange musically or transform, or dramatize, cinematize, or otherwise adapt 
> his work.
> 
> So you would need the permission  of the author for any attempt to translate 
> as a public service.
> 
> Jeremy Simmons
>