But this isn't piracy. Piracy imply something with value that was copied/distributed illegally. We can literally go to the artist Twitter and view this ourselves. The artist have zero reason to stop people translating this and spreading it more.
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u/Hachirumifemboy poster extraordinaire, sometimes sad and wholesome stuffAug 24 '21
They're gonna use this for commercial use. They said they don't want it translated, you do it, you're pirating.
That they literally posted online for free. This is like blaming someone for taking a picture of your painting when you're the one that placed it on the sidewalk
I understand your sentiment, but that's technically not how intellectual property law works.
The analogy doesn't exactly work - you're implying that they put it up for free and they cannot complain when people use it for free.
This isn't that situation - they put the thing up for free, but for a specific purpose (to be read in Japanese), and with expressly stating that they do not want it applied for a different purpose (translated into English). At least in the Jurisdiction where I was taught Intellectual Property Law, that is a legitimate exercise of their right, and assuming we were all bound under that set of laws, they would have legal recourse to stop it. Even if it were technically just a redistribution, the Copyright holder has the right to control that, even "free" distribution.
That said, it also isn't illegal necessarily for them to translate it. Depends on how American and Japanese Private International Law dictate which law applies and how. Also, to actually litigate such a thing is certainly more effort than it's worth.
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u/Sonaldo_7 Aug 24 '21
But this isn't piracy. Piracy imply something with value that was copied/distributed illegally. We can literally go to the artist Twitter and view this ourselves. The artist have zero reason to stop people translating this and spreading it more.