[LINK] OT: Is translation a copyright violation?

[Stewart Fist]

Karl writes
> 
> Is making a translation of the lyrics of a song a copyright violation?
> Obviously I mean without the permission of the owner of the copyright on
> the original.

Yes (no ifs, buts or maybes)

Copyright in these cases is in the "form or expression of the idea", not in
the way in which (or language in which) the idea is written.  Of course the
translation is also copyrightable - because more than one copyright can
exist in the same literary work.

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