![]() ![]() I’ll provide the first 10 or so lines from each and you see what would be easier to make a movie out of.īURNING: Massive flames. You can find the script here and an example subtitle can be found here. ![]() What you fail to see is how different subtitles are from a script, much less how small a part they are of the entire work (which is the movie, not just the script). He never said that the subtitles are words that don’t have anything to do with the movie. And, when it’s an operation like Netflix - which is obviously a commercial entity - you have to wonder if it’s going to get sued…įiled Under: copyright, crowdsourcing, subtitles While some of us think that providing captions/subtitles should be pretty clear fair use, others (obviously) disagree. Either way, it seems like it opens up some pretty serious copyright questions. Knowing both those things, isn’t it interesting that Netflix is now experimenting with crowdsourcing captioning/subtitles for films and TV shows? Perhaps it figures that having lost that first legal fight, it should lean in the other direction and see if it gets sued there as well. A few days before that, we had written about a student who ran a site that provided crowdsourced downloadable subtitle files for TV and movies, and had been found guilty of copyright infringement. As we noted at the time, this raised interesting copyright questions, considering that Netflix may not be legally allowed to put captions on videos. ![]() First, there’s the story of Netflix being told that not having closed captioning on its streaming movies means it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. Before getting into the details of this new story, let me bring up a pair of recent Techdirt stories as background. ![]()
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