But it's not true. There are plenty of authorized reproduction that breaks the strictly prohibited rules. > To modify the original text of the speech bubbles,

But it's not true. There are plenty of authorized reproduction that breaks the strictly prohibited rules. > To modify the original text of the speech bubbles, covers and so forth, or to add any text to the selected visual(s). Obviously they are giving publishers of translations an exception to this strictly prohibited, no-exceptions rule. > To change the colours, line or orientation of the image. The film "Tintin and I" re-animates large parts of several scenes. So why publish a document saying "when we've granted you the right to re-publish some of our stuff, you can't do the following with it", when they obviously will allow you. Also, shouldn't the copyright date be the year of the original being reproduced? Or what exactly is the point of the copyright year here?