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Are you saying that if I write a blog post and you translate it into Russian, I do not have a copyright over your translation of my blog post?
by raganwald 15y ago
Are you saying that if I write a blog post and you translate it into Russian, I do not have a copyright over your translation of my blog post?
- seabee 15y agoI clearly stated that copyright cover translation from English to Russian. I don't expect such miscomprehension from HN of all places. Edit: to clarify, I see you are questioning whether I'm classing a translation as a derivative work or a independent work. However, this is irrelevant to my assertion that a machine-generated translation confers no copyright protections at all, which is the situation with the github code.
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- pasiaj 15y agoNo. He's saying if you design a program that takes an input A of witch it creates the output B, you do not own the copyright to all programs that can create B out of A.
- raganwald 15y agoReally? The word "translation" describes the output of a translator, not the translator itself. I don't think either of us are talking about copyrighting decompilers.
- GrandMasterBirt 15y agoThat's more about patents. Patent is a technique to convert A => B Copyright is work done such as a single tool A => B. Copyright does not apply to all instances of tools A => B as long as none of those tools copied anything from the original copyrighted tool. If you take the copyrighted tool and you transform it to something else using something you made or got, the work is not yours since you created a tool A => B completely based on the original copyrighted tool. The law is flimsy here and you would probably have to just go to court to settle it, this is not black and white.