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Unread 08-30-2015, 10:15 AM
Roger Slater Roger Slater is offline
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Originally Posted by Mary Meriam View Post

Roger - how would one translation infringe on another translation?
Let's say you took someone else's translation and copied it word for word, for example. That would be an infringement of the copyright on the translation even if the original poem is in the public domain. The original poem and the translation each have a separate copyright. So a single poem in French may have a dozen different translations, each with its own copyright.
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