Hollywood Reporter: With examples of the way music has served films like Rain Man, Major League and the Guardians of the Galaxy, a group of Hollywood studios on Wednesday asked a federal court to reject a lawsuit that contends Hollywood is violating various laws by refusing to provide more captioning or subtitling of song lyrics.
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No, please stop arguing about this. Just caption everything that you can hear and understand. Deaf and hard of hearing people have a right to art. They have a right to experiencing human connection. I understand that it costs money to caption everything (or caption at all) but just suck it up and just do it. Articles like this just make me angry.
On a related issue, disability services in this country suck. Continuing down the closed caption road, there is a law, namely the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), that requires closed captioning. Why is this law rarely enforced? Why does neither CNN or Fox provide a closed captioning option? Audio description is also a thing. So few movies provide that option. I'm sorry for the rant. I never start a comment meaning to climb on a self-righteous horse and stampede over everyone. Art should be accessible to everyone, and you should never purposely limit the information available to any group.
Ok really? Is this actually a thing? I don’t understand what the big deal is. If the deaf community has come together to say that it’s frustrating that song lyrics aren’t subtitled, then just subtitle the songs! You already have someone doing the dialogue, is it really going to ruin you to add song lyrics into that? By dragging on this lawsuit, what Hollywood is doing is essentially losing 10% of their potential audience. So what if they win the suit and don’t subtitle song lyrics, that only means that deaf people are going to stop buying their product. It seems like these companies are letting pride get in the way of making a more versatile product. And also, their ‘creative rights’ argument is weak. If you incorporated the entire song into the movie, then why do you need to creatively edit the subtitles? Shouldn’t that editing happen at the level of the music? Overall, I think Hollywood is just being stupid and egotistical.
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