Board Thread:English VOCALOID discussion/@comment-100.0.123.57-20171025035138/@comment-25648422-20171026111857

I believe masa does not mind it if there are people who uploads translation videos of his songs. After all, he is very aware that he has a really huge fanbase of people in the English-speaking world.

I understand the reasons as to why some Vocaloid producers will get upset or angry if someone has uploaded their videos in other websites without their permission. It's true that someone might profit from the videos that they took from the producers or claim the videos as their own. Then again, translators are one of the reasons as to why we have come across new Ocaloid songs. Since most of the songs are written in Japanese, translators just mostly upload their translation videos with the English translations of the Japanese songs' names. Besides, people want to find Vocaloid songs by typing the English or Romaji names of the songs in the search engine most of the time.

It's true that a translator's translation video can have more views than the original song uploads. I have a few examples:
 * Hazuki no Yume's translation video on TKN's song Vocaloid.wav has earned a few thousands of views while the original uploads of the song on Nico Nico, YouTube and SoundCloud have yet to reach 1,000+ views.
 * descentsubs' translation video of GravityRain currently has 124,000+ views, which is more than twice the current views on Tiara's YouTube upload of the song.

However, there are still cases in which the original song uploads have way more views than the translation videos:
 * Dropkick Sub's translation video of drop pop candy currently has 138,000+ views while the original uploads on both Nico Nico and YouTube currently have a few millions of views.
 * Impatiens Subs' translation video of Signal currently has less than 50 views while Yokomin's Nico Nico upload of the song currently has 1,200+ views, his YouTube upload 4,600+ views and his piapro upload 200+ views.
 * descentsubs' translation video of The Cherry Blossoms Bloom currently has 11,000+ views while Hachioji-P's Nico Nico upload of the song currently has 76,100+ views and his YouTube upload of the song 49,200+ views.
 * descentsubs' translation video of Dream Creator currently has 16,000+ views while Hachioji-P's Nico Nico upload currently has 159,700+ views and his YouTube upload 326,000+ views.

Gonna continue adding more information to my post here later. I just gotta go buy food.