Kinema Club Subtitling Consortium

[Abe-Nornes]

Lang wrote:

>Just a question on the legality of this.  As far as the fan-subbing of 
>anime goes, is this a legal practice?  

Of course not, so they keep strict rules. As you mention, no money changes
hands. People even send tapes with SASE for return. When a tape goes into
commercial distribution, the fan-subbers stop distributing their version.
However, they _are_ dubbing commercial tapes so it's clearly illegal. Also,
renting fan-subbed tapes is definitely poor judgement, and would be
certainly be frowned upon by the subbers. I suppose no one goes after them
because there's no real money involved, and if anything all that spirited
activity has incredibly value for the commercial market.

>What about all of the movies that have been made since 1950?  
>I think there may be a bigger desire for more recent films.  

People will translate the films they have intellectual and/or pleasure
commitments to. I like that!

Pete Tombs" <petetombs at paganfilms.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

>it's bloody hard work! More than that, getting it right is
>really, really hard. The notion, quoted in one post, that "working out the
>in and out times of the subtitle is easy" and that you then go off and let a
>computer do it for you, is just plain wrong. 

Having subbed a few films, I can tell you it sure is a lot of work (each
generally took an intense week or two of my summer...and did only the
timing and the translation/subs). 

The timing is not difficult, just labor intensive. If you tried to do the
subs with a character generator on the fly, it would be a challenge to
avoid sloppiness. This is why the anime subbers use laser disks that have
time codes that they can attach to their computers.