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Site That Provides Fan-Made Subtitles Loses Copyright Infringement Appeal

posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 26 2018, @06:33PM   
from the subtitles-provided-by-no-one dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3941

The founder of a site that provided fan-created subtitles has lost his appeal against a conviction for copyright infringement. In 2017 a Swedish court found that the unauthorized distribution of movie subtitles is a crime, sentencing the then 32-year-old to probation and a fine. The Court of Appeal has now largely upheld that earlier verdict.

Source: https://torrentfreak.com/founder-of-fan-made-subtitle-site-lose-copyright-infringement-appeal-180318/

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Original Submission

• Re:How can your view of the situation be so wrong? Re:How can your view of the situation be so wrong? (Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday March 27 2018, @01:00AM (4 children)

  by dry (223) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @01:00AM (#658728) Journal

  Most all creative works are built on others creative works. That's the way it is with humanity and has been probably since before we were human. It's part of what makes us human, telling stories is a survival trait, the tribe that told stories about the croc in the waterhole survived better then the tribe that didn't tell stories.
  Now we have idiots who don't understand that stories lead to more stories and want to lock everything up without thinking about where new stories will come from.

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• That's a straw man, as usual. That's a straw man, as usual. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:08AM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:08AM (#658779)

  No one is arguing otherwise.

  What people are arguing is that you need to interact with others voluntarily—build on others' work with their blessing (or at least without their explicit disapproval).

  Get it yet?

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  • Re:That's a straw man, as usual. Re:That's a straw man, as usual. (Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:53AM (2 children)

    by dry (223) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:53AM (#658795) Journal

    Why? Building on others work is a natural right.

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    • I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:04AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:04AM (#658801)

      I suggest you work with others to ensure that you are indeed building on others work rightfully.

      Until you have that confirmation, you are existing in a perilous fashion.

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      • Re:I don't know what that means. (Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday March 27 2018, @01:49PM

        by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @01:49PM (#658965) Journal

        What steps should an individual take to convince a publisher to become willing to work with said individual rather than continue a blanket policy of refusing to work with individuals?

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