Re:Movie Subtitle Fansite Raided By Copyright Industry And P...
by gerhardi on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @09:59AM
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It seems to say that "it is not an infringement of copyright for an _authorized entity_ to reproduce..."
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Re:Movie Subtitle Fansite Raided By Copyright Industry And P...
by colanderman on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:23AM
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Ah good catch. From the definitions:
“authorized entity” means a nonprofit organization or a governmental agency that has a primary mission to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities;
Re:Movie Subtitle Fansite Raided By Copyright Industry And P...
by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:52PM
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Sounds like the exact same website could be setup and remain the right side of the legal boundary simply by presenting themselves as a service for the deaf. YMMV.
The owners would have plausible deniability I feel, they don't know whether their users are deaf. Then it would be down to the copyright owners to address whether individual users had rights to format-shift audio tracks [they purchased] in to a format they could consume [specific language subtitles].