[LINK] OT: Is translation a copyright violation?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Stewart Fist wrote:
> 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.
> 
by way of an extreme example see
 > Du Fu or Tu Fu (chin.: 杜甫), (712 – 770) was a prominent Chinese
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Fu>

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