Are fansubs against the law?!


Question: This is somewhat of a tricky question. If you're looking at a black and white answer, then yes they are against the law. The second someone takes a anime video or manga and publish it on the Internet, they are infringing on copyright law.

However, I believe it's somewhat of borderline call. Fansubs usually try to promote Japanese anime/manga series while they're still only in Japan... meaning an American company hasn't licensed the series. Once an American company licenses the series, then distributing it via fansubs is illegal. I say it's only borderline when it's not licensed in America because the English speaking world really wouldn't buy a Japanese-only product (like Japanese anime/manga) since they can't read it.

When fans fansub Japanese-only anime/manga, they are promoting it to the English viewers. This way when an American company does license the series, it will already have some popularity going into it (from word of mouth, the Internet, etc).


Answers: This is somewhat of a tricky question. If you're looking at a black and white answer, then yes they are against the law. The second someone takes a anime video or manga and publish it on the Internet, they are infringing on copyright law.

However, I believe it's somewhat of borderline call. Fansubs usually try to promote Japanese anime/manga series while they're still only in Japan... meaning an American company hasn't licensed the series. Once an American company licenses the series, then distributing it via fansubs is illegal. I say it's only borderline when it's not licensed in America because the English speaking world really wouldn't buy a Japanese-only product (like Japanese anime/manga) since they can't read it.

When fans fansub Japanese-only anime/manga, they are promoting it to the English viewers. This way when an American company does license the series, it will already have some popularity going into it (from word of mouth, the Internet, etc).

no!!
fansubs are just the fans subbing the anime and they normally get paid 4 doing it

Yes, because it's an unauthorized distribution.

It should be noted that even unauthorized public viewing is against the law, so a bunch of fans can't have an open public viewing.

I don't think so cuz for Naruto Shippuuden, Dattebayo (company who subs naruto Episodes) gets paid for doing that.



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