Can we have some news articles please [Oct 2018]

[Lex]

Hi folks,

Would someone or more than one be willing to write a couple of articles covering news over the last while?

- One for the upcoming release of the Yen Press translations of OTWTAS and the news that the Turks novel is also getting a translation: https://thelifestream.net/forums/threads/otwtas-published-in-the-uk-in-october.20722/#post-793430

- One for the video in which Uematsu tries to say the remake was supposed to come out this year again: https://thelifestream.net/forums/threads/remake-interviews-catch-all-thread.17121/page-43

Cheers

 

[Shademp]

I'll write up an article about the Yen Press translations. It will be online before the end of today.

 

[Lex]

Thank you Shad

 

[Shademp]

- Official English releases of FFVII novels: Available soon!

*does my Jeff Goldbum "There it is" impression*

 

[ForceStealer]

How much time do you want to pass before the other one?

 

[Strangelove]

publish my interview translation you cowards

the people need to do about square staff visiting cd shops on their breaks

 

[Mage]

Not being funny @Lex but in my thread that you linked in the OP was this:

Can someone frontpage this pls? Why do I have to ask this?

Because it's not new news and we reported on it previously

Curious as to what's different now.

 

[Lex]

The Turks translation and the proximity babes

 

[Mage]

Would it be worth writing an opinion piece on what's up with the OTWTAS release being so shit? Pre-orders not being fulfilled seems to be quite an issue, if we could speak to someone at Yen Press that would be good (not holding my breath though). Could be a worthwhile exercise if only to remind people that we had an English translation available before it was cool.
Also on that subject, where do we stand on that now an official version has been released? Are we in breach of any copyright? This isn't something I've got experience in but from my broader legal knowledge I'm going to posit that since our translation predates the English release by a substantial margin, we're good. I'm happy to be corrected on that though.

 

[CrashOuch]

I mean, they'll have copyrighted their translation, their words, but that means ours is still as infringing on the copyright of the original Japanese text as much as it ever was/wasn't before. And I don't know where we stand with that.

I guess Yen Press might have a claim on the grounds they might lose business from us making it available for free? But idk they don't seem very together or aware so who knows.

 

[Lex]

Back when this was first announced I was contacted by a former TLS staffer who provided dire warnings that I should "pull all the translatons because they'll be coming after you" but I don't see any reason to do that until we're formally requested to do so by an official body - at the end of the day we've provided the English translations for nearly 10 years where none was available.

I also btw reached out to Yen press at the same time to discuss the news way back when the first English translations were announced and didn't get a response even though I was quite persistent. It's a weird one for sure.

 

[Ghost X]

Translations are a creative work under Australian law (and that of other countries, I suspect :p), but you need permission to do them by who owns the copyright of the original work.

 

[Cthulhu]

My personal stance on this (insert disclaimers here) is that we probably won't be in legal trouble unless we don't respond to official takedown requests, which we haven't received yet.

 

[Lex]

If we get a C&D we'll pull them, we'll leave them up until such time as one is received. There's no point in pre-emptively nuking one of the more unique draws to the site. Even in the event that it happens I'll be proud that TLS provided access to these stories in English for many years before a publisher finally had the sense to translate it.

The audiobooks are another matter.

 

[Lex]

Would it be worth writing an opinion piece on what's up with the OTWTAS release being so shit? Pre-orders not being fulfilled seems to be quite an issue, if we could speak to someone at Yen Press that would be good (not holding my breath though). Could be a worthwhile exercise if only to remind people that we had an English translation available before it was cool.
Also on that subject, where do we stand on that now an official version has been released? Are we in breach of any copyright? This isn't something I've got experience in but from my broader legal knowledge I'm going to posit that since our translation predates the English release by a substantial margin, we're good. I'm happy to be corrected on that though.

I just realised my response doesn't actually cover your suggestion of an opinion piece on the pre-orders, we got bogged down chatting about copyright - I think it's a good idea if someone wants to do it, but also I'm wary of putting up a blast piece of Yen Press considering the hazy copyright discussion XD. No reason to censor ourselves I guess, so fuck it go for it if you want to?

 

[Mage]

Wasn't intending to blast anyone, more do a brief analysis of where they've fucked up and see if we can make an accurate estimate of unfulfilled pre-orders.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

I wonder if any remaining unfulfilled pre-orders are more the fault of distributors? I ordered my copy a week or so after release and had it in two days, so -- based on that one case, admittedly -- I don't particularly get the impression the book is unavailable so much as not being delivered to some folks in a timely manner for whatever reason.

 

[Mage]

That's kinda what I'd hope to ascertain from doing the legwork.