The director Jean-Luc Godard once jested that his film "Notre
Musique" "should be subtitled into the American English of a
Pakistani cab driver." With the rise of crowd-sourced subtitling
platforms such as Amara, which uses volunteers to collaborate on
translations of online videos into numerous languages, such
hyperspecific captioning no longer sounds like a joke. Amara
volunteers now mainly provide subtitles for videos of political
speeches and events, but Netflix is in the early stages of
testing Amara's services, in an experiment that is using a group
of volunteers to add English captions to some classic television
episodes.  While drawing on the translation skills of volunteers
around the world offers the potential for the limitlessly
specific subtitling of commercial films, it also raises the flag
of potential copyright infringement. Though subtitles are
frequently an afterthought, they are a proprietary afterthought,
and studios do not take kindly to their manipulation. The issue
hasn't cropped up much