bizarre question

[kaigou]

but if anyone knows the answer, it'd be one of you. I'm sure of it.

There was a recent ruling in the US, I thought, as regards translations -- that the translator owns copyright. Is this true, and wouldn't that mean that if your translation is stolen and posted without your permission, you have essentially a kind of copyright holder's right to have it removed?

Just wondering how far that ruling (if I'm remembering it right) would carry.

Comments

[alas]

Not sure about the specifics of American law, (Australian here!) but that sounds good for most international copyright too. The only issue might be that if you've translated something without permission from the original source's creator, they might come after you if you get their attention by going after other people? But I think technically, you still own the copyright over your particular translation even against the original source creator -i.e. they can't use it without your permission either, even if they can block you from distributing it as something infringing on their copyright. (A bit off topic, sorry, but still on translator's copyright!)