Interesting. IANAL, but I was under the impression that an important part of the Berne Convention was to give authors the right to approve translations in other

Interesting. IANAL, but I was under the impression that an important part of the Berne Convention was to give authors the right to approve translations in other countries, ie so that an American company could not translate and sell copies of Crime and Punishment without getting the approval of (and therefore compensating) Dostoyevsky. This the interpretation I've seen repeated amongst many fan translation groups, the implications of which vary amongst mediums from "we don't have a legal right to anything we translate, but we'll try to voice our disapproval anyway," typically said by manga scanlators to the giant, quasi-legal online manga sites who they have little power over, to "we may not have a right to our translation, but we do own the rights to our code, and we will use that ownership to send DMCA takedown producers of pirate 'reproduction' cartridges" in the translation hacking scene. In response to the, uh, great grand parent post, even if they are not legally entitled to protection for their unauthorized derivative works, I think they are justified in their feelings of ownership toward them. People in the various fan translation scenes put a hell of a lot of their own free time into their works; even if the law does not support it, in a "common sense" kind of way, I find it difficult to believe that they do not have the moral high ground here.