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Need help understanding a Japanese article in Tanteidan mag.

Posted: July 19th, 2006, 10:34 pm
by steyen
hi , does anyone understand Japanese language?
i would like to understand what the article in page 11-13 in Tanteidan Magazine no.88 means..
Need ur help...

Posted: July 20th, 2006, 3:41 am
by paperz
If you can scan the required article (i mean just the text) and put it on this, I am sure you will get a translation.

http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_s ... lator.html

Posted: July 20th, 2006, 4:00 am
by steyen
hm,i thought of it too.
but if i scan it,it will be in jpeg format instead of text file.
online translators only can translate the given text

Posted: July 20th, 2006, 10:07 am
by eric_son
I know a little Japanese.
You can scan the page fragment and send me the image.

I don't know if this would cause any legal problems though...

Posted: July 20th, 2006, 5:00 pm
by Wordgames
Of course it causes legal problems but since no one is going to sue over a fragment scan of a magazine sent for the purpose of translation why worry?

Posted: July 20th, 2006, 5:12 pm
by Joseph Wu
I don't think so. It probably falls under fair use. If you mass-mailed it to people, or posted it on a website, that would be different.

Posted: July 20th, 2006, 9:32 pm
by Wordgames
...we still have fair use? give it a couple of months ;)

Posted: July 21st, 2006, 7:27 am
by steyen
what it means by maybe a couple of months?

Posted: July 21st, 2006, 4:29 pm
by Wordgames
It was a comment regarding the current legal actions being undertaken by the RIAA and several publishers, basically they try to claim they are losing millions to piracy just like they did when radios and walkmans were released.

A lot of publishers are jumping on the bandwagon due to the advent of E-Books, they want an end to free use which means no more listening to your music with friends, no more mix tapes and most certinally no more photocopying a diagram from a book :)

Posted: July 22nd, 2006, 8:03 am
by steyen
what??so strict
any links to the article?thanks