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Re: [ARSCLIST] Translations
Barbara Need wrote:
On 1 Jan 2008, at 17:06, Mike Richter wrote:
Suppose a work - in this case, the text of sung material - is in
copyright. Suppose that I prepare a translation from a legal copy of
the original. Is it legal for me to put the translation in the public
domain even though the original is protected?
You need to get permission to prepare the translation from the copyright
holder of the original. Once you have that, you hold the copyright in
the translation (a "derivative" work) and, as far as I can tell, you can
put it in the public domain, if you wish--but copyright in the original
is still in place.
Barbara Need
UChicago
(I am not a layer, but I deal with copyright issues on a regular basis.)
Otherwise, your response is consistent with my understanding - darn it!
However, I doubt that I need anyone's permission to create the
translation, only to publish it in any sense.
Mike
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