On 29/05/05, James Broadhead jamesbroadhead@gmail.com wrote:
Why would we need their permission? It's perfectly legal to show unlicenced content; although I'd be slightly dubious about doing it at a payed-for event.
Its not fansubs are still illegal because its unauthorised copying and distrubution of copy written material people seem to think that just because its unlicenced for english release that they're legal but the japanese copyright still applies.
However some cons do show small ammounts of fansubs but as we are inviting anime companies we have to be careful if we do decide to show them, the idea is to only show very new stuff, from the October season, and only show the first ep by fansubbers that will drop the project when its licenced