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  1. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    Again, why are you discussing major societal change in a thread about a mostly-porn forum changing its policy on translations? This policy change is made and evaluated in the context of a capitalist economy with copyright, and this forum doesn't have the clout to change either of those; what...

  2. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    Points radar gun at goalposts If humans were computers, this would work as well as you think. Because humans find it orders of magnitude easier to remember "Snickers" than "A38E-560F-88AD-3432", it does not.

  3. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    This statement, in particular, falsifies as soon as a potential reader exists who either - is bilingual, or - thinks it's easier to google translate an unauthorized translation than to pay for the original authorized work. The danger in assuming you know every way an unauthorized translation...

  4. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    I write a book, taking (possibly optimistically) 2000 hours (1 year at 40 hours/week) to write it. I then publish it, and try to sell copies for $10 each; following your assumption of "a world where making a copy of such things is so absurdly easy", which is a reasonable assumption, I'll ignore...

  5. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    US law is pretty clear on this actually, at least if I'm interpreting it correctly: the fanfic's copyright, which applies and has always applied to only the parts that were not in the original work, continues to apply to those parts until it expires on its own. According to wikipedia there's a...

  6. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    Pretty sure these arguments are way too general to be debated in this thread, so I won't.

  7. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    Eh, I'm replying to a chain of posts that from what I can tell started with AztecCroc using the word "plagiarism". The original justification for this policy was more based on the moral right whose (imperfect) manifestation in law is copyright, so that's what I'm basing my arguments on. Precise...

  8. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    I haven't actually seen a consensus definition of plagiarism; what I've seen is that it's context-dependent. What's ok in undergrad essays is different from what's ok in published academic papers, both presumably different from what's ok in online articles, fiction books, etc. The one common...

  9. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    Did you, like, not read my posts? A few replies ago I go on about why fanfics in general are fair use and translations aren't. Although technically you're not wrong; claiming fair use is basically saying, "yes I'm taking your stuff, but it's justified." If you actually believed that, you'd ask...

  10. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    Yes. If they're deriving any benefit from their story being hosted where it is - and it's not your place to judge what counts as "benefit", stuff like likes/kudos and reader engagement would count - then a translation, or any other substitute, posted anywhere else will decrease their benefit...

  11. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    Pretty sure this is not true; under US copyright law at least, a fanfic would be a derivative work and derivative works are copyrightable; technically, all the aspects of a derivative work that are added to the original work are what's considered a new copyrightable work. (Source: google...
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