Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-25648422-20180509012729/@comment-25648422-20180514233243

Ihavenoideawhatsoever wrote: While i agree with not giving unofficial links, what about translators that have permission from the producer to reupload their with subtitles, since most, if not all, english translators are asking for permission thanks to the HnY incedent.

I was also going to ask if those translations count as official since the producers know that someone wants to translate their songs and they give them permission to od so but that's a bit more complicated than this, so.... I was planning to respond to you about this but I forgot to. But anyway, here is my response.

There is a difference between translating a song and translating a song but also making the translation official. For the first one, a user or more asks a producer if they could translate their songs and the producer says yes. In other words, this is just simply asking a producer for permission to translate their songs. But for the second one, if a translation of a song should be made official, there has to be an agreement with both the producer and the translator(s).

This is why most translations for songs are called fan translations. And since most of the songs have fan translations, fan translations would go to the Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki instead. Not to mention, there is sometimes more than one translation for a song.