Copyright case (E+J)

[David Blair]

thanks -very much- for clearing that up!

Aaron Gerow wrote:

>
> On 2006.7.17, at 07:30  AM, David Blair wrote:
>
>> Leading to the question, are there real differences in how 53 and 
>> 52+75 are written in the original?
>
>
> Frankly, this is not a great translation. Especially article 52 in 
> English is a bit confusing and is a lot clearer in the Japanese. One 
> reason is because the Japanese is more repetitious, insisting on using 
> the same phrases over and over again to make clear what it is talking 
> about, whereas the English tries to abbreviate those with terms like 
> "such work" or "such cases" or joining different sentences into one. 
> In terms of style, then, 52 and 53 are not that different (but then 
> again, most Japanese laws are not), but they are insistent about what 
> problem they are referring to. This, I believe, makes it clear that 52 
> and 53 have to be treated separately because the topics are being 
> specifically defined using different terms.
>
> Aaron Gerow
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> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Yale University
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>
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