Funimation confront fansubbing

Fansubbing group Shinsen-Subs, have been contacted by American anime licensor Funimation. Fansubbing is the process where fans subtitle their own anime titles and release them for download on the internet. Shinsen had several properties belonging to Funimation available for download on their website, as well as some properties previously unknown to belong to Funimation. Funimation issued Shinsen-Subs with the following message.

• “We own or control various exclusive copyrights and trademarks related to the animated motion pictures, including but not limited to, the series known as “

Speed Grapher“, “Trinity Blood,” “FullMetal Alchemist,” “Dragon Ball,” “Solty Rei” a.k.a. “Origin,” “Detective Conan” a.k.a. “Case Closed,” and “Tsubasa“. Funimation also contacted Shinsen-Subs domain provider resulting in their website being suspended. Of the titles listed in Funimation’s message to Shinsen, neither Solty Rei or Tsubasa have been announced as official licenses from them as of yet. [ANN]