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InvisiblelIllIIIllIlIIlIlIIllIllIIl
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works of fiction in the public domain
    #7697577 - 11/30/07 03:33 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

i was surprised to see a copyright on a compilation of some of anton checkov's short stories, translated into english

the stories were written well over 95 years ago

so the stories are public domain in russian form but not when translated into english?

does anyone know if this is really legal?

this seems like a really shitty thing to do considering the author never authorized anyone to translate anything (although i have no reason to believe he was against it)


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Re: works of fiction in the public domain [Re: lIllIIIllIlIIlIlIIllIllIIl]
    #7697614 - 11/30/07 04:20 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

> so the stories are public domain in russian form but not when translated into english?

The stories are public domain, but the specific translation that you reference is not. There is nothing stopping you (or somebody) from creating your own translation from the original work.


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Re: works of fiction in the public domain [Re: Seuss]
    #7700926 - 11/30/07 09:34 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

it still doesn't sit right with me

i have seen two independent translations of the same work before and there are of course differences

the meaning (and even the sentence structure) remains essentially the same though

by that same reasoning i should be able to express a patented computer algorithm in a different notation and be able to copyright it as my own

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Re: works of fiction in the public domain [Re: lIllIIIllIlIIlIlIIllIllIIl]
    #7701643 - 12/01/07 01:49 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

> by that same reasoning i should be able to express a patented computer algorithm in a different notation and be able to copyright it as my own

Don't get me started... *grin*

(Copyright and patent laws in the US are broken.)


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