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Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com)

Posted by msmash on from the making-things-complicated dept.

A court has just ruled that making fan subtitles or translations is not protected by the law. From a report: A Dutch group called the Free Subtitles Foundation took anti-piracy group BREIN to court over "fansubbing." BREIN has previously been active in taking fan subtitles and translations offline, and the Foundation was hoping a Dutch court would come down on the side of fair use. The court didn't quite see it that way. It ruled that making subtitles without permission from the property owners amounted to copyright infringement. BREIN wasn't unsympathetic, but said it couldn't allow fansubbers to continue doing what they're doing.

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  1. Sucks, but derivative work by d34thm0nk3y · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That sucks, but, it's pretty clearly a derivative work...

  2. Re:Promoting Progress of Science and useful Arts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The purpose of copyright in Netherlands is the same as in UK and Sweden:
    1. To incarcerate and punish the nationals for the sake of foreigners and their wallets.
    2. To maximize the outflow of cash from the local economy into foreign wallets.
    3. To proudly look at the American owners, let your tongue out, and wag your tail so you can be called a good puppy boy
    and patted on the head for doing actions 1. and 2.