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Originally Posted by Format C:
OK to pay translators billions per page (nobody will say I want it for free, I hope)
OK to copyright comments, reviews, critics and exegesis of PD works
NO copyright on translations of PD works.
NO copyright for mere translators.
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Who is going to pay the translator of a PD work? If they can't get a copyright on it, no one will pay for what they can legally copy. If the work is PD then the original author/publisher will not pay for a translation because under your scheme the translation will also be PD since it keeps the original's copyright period.
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