Copy right law and translation subtitles
shibu
(Querist) 06 December 2009
This query is : Resolved
Hello,
I need your advice on my site, that is basically a translation site, hold lakhs of sentences mostly used in English and corresponding translation in my local language (Arabic). I don’t store any name/place names or anything used in the movies or TV shows. It is only plain English sentence(can be called dialog with out any show names/character names though) and the translation for it. This is basically used as subtitle(caption) translations. Is it come under copyright?. Can the film houses sue my site for the sentences/dialog they use in their movies/shows?. I don't want a surprise at the end :).. thanks in advance please guide me.
Thanks, Shibu
Raj Kumar Makkad
(Expert) 06 December 2009
Your work is not covered under copyright act so no action as anticipated from the film houses is tenable against you.
shibu
(Querist) 06 December 2009
Thank you Rai sir for the reply. I read the bellow post ,in US they may amend the copy right law to include machine translations under copy right(that would be bad ofcource). so just wondering that would happen in India too..
http://en.flossmanuals.net/OpenTranslationTools/CopyrightAndMachineTranslation
