Forum - View topicNEWS: Viki Streams Black Jack 21, Oniisama E..., Master of Epic, Waimo-kun
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agila61
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No, it doesn't look like there are any Italian series on the site ~ even if there were, they'd probably be region blocked in Italy, just like the anime is region blocked in Japan. In other words, just like I don't see "United States", you wouldn't see "Italy" even if they had, say, Inspector Montelbano. To find anime, you are not looking for "Italy", you are looking for "Japan", the country that the anime comes from. |
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Sariachan
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"Montelbano!? It's Montalbano! 
Anyway I understand now, thank you for the further explanation. ^^ It appears that I can see 10 Japanese shows from here in Italy. I didn't try them yet, though. |
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agila61
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Now its not, its Montalbano ~ I may be a lazy typist, but I have seen enough of the show to be 100% sure that the accent is on the third syllable.
OK, so you see all the one's mentioned in the article ~ North America does not have Crystal Blaze (aka Glass Maiden) through Viki.com because Sentai has licensed it. Indeed, if you wanted to, you could watch an episode that has the English subtitles finished, and then contribute Italian subtitles to the episode. |
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Sariachan
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I wasn't talking about any accent, I just wanted to make you notice that you wrote a "e" instead than a "a" in his name. 
I don't think it's a wise idea to translate subtitles to English to Italian, when the source language is Japanese... And I don't have time to do that, sorry. ^^' |
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agila61
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Do you think that a popular Korean historical drama gets 22 languages subtitled by everyone speaking Korean. Its crowdsource ... if someone gets the ball rolling, it can attract viewers and then others can improve on it.
OTOH, if you don't have time to do it, you don't have time ~ its not like there is some kind of moral imperative to contribute fansubs at the site! |
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Sariachan
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I think English is enough a common language to be enough, it isn't really needed to translate in any language... ^^' And about the time, I made scanlations in the past, so I already gave my contribution in the scanlation&fansub community, even if not much.
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agila61
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A majority of the world's population doesn't speak English, so when I see a series at Viki.com in Spanish and French and Italian and German and Tagalog and Malay and Turkish and Chinese and ... etcetera and etcetera, ... it makes me happy that so many people get to watch properly licensed, ad-funded content, and makes me jealous that so much of it is kdramas and so little of it is anime. One point about existing fansubs is that people who have actually done the fansubs can contribute their own work to the site, as long as they are willing for it to be released under a Creative Commons copyright. Obviously the fansubbers have rights to their own work, so nobody can properly use the fansub done by someone else unless the original fansubber gives permission, either in the original release or to the person who wants to contribute it to Viki.com |
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glitteringloke
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I just finished putting the subs up for Master of Epic episode 1 on behalf of the group that subbed it. Feels nice to do things legally and not have all the hard work go to waste  Just gotta do the rest of it now
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agila61
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Well, good onya! Its important to remember that fansub groups have rights too ~ as a derivative work, they don't have the right to distribute without an OK from the creator of the original work, but in turn nobody else has a right to distribute their work without their OK. The way that Viki.com slices through the legal knot is that while they only stream audio-video content from the original producer, they accept subtitle submissions through their subtitle editor, and under their T&C, members using the video editor are releasing the work under a Creative Commons license. The Creative Commons license they use allows the original works owner to make use of the submission if they wish. |
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