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Old 11-22-2012, 04:03 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Perhaps you could explain your viewpoint? What would be my commercial incentive to create a new translation of (to pick a random example), "The Odyssey" if I didn't have a copyright in that translation and hence the ability to make money from it? We wouldn't have good translations of any of the great classics without copyright.
The oddity I was referring to was that we have already considered a work in public domain, but consider a transcription of that work in another language as not in the public domain. I find that odd - you don't. That's where our opinion obviously differed, but I quoted your whole post because I was being particular lazy. I have gone back and corrected that.
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