Copyright Query -- English to Russian

[Michael Trittipo]

<< Perhaps as a lawyer you would . . . point out . . . the language in US
copyright law that unequivocally refers to the making of translations as
pertaining to acts other than publication? >>

Sure.  I'll write again this evening.  This a.m. it's off to work, and the
statute books are there, anyway, not here, if I'm to quote dead-on.

<< "Conception" belongs to an entirely different branch of law ... >>

I don't recall using the word.  The classic copyright distinction (albeit
with some open points) is between idea and expression.

>Also - Maybe the thread should be clarified: I don't believe anyone was
>talking about publishing . . . Rather, it seems that advice for dealing with
>the legal regime of the Russian Federation was being sought.

That's why I quoted the original question.  It said nothing about what
country's laws; it merely mentioned a language.  That's why I make the
caution about the not-unforeseeable case of someone making an En>Ru xlation
in the US.  If the original question had said "under Russian law" or the
like, I'd not have answered.

>. . .  seems to be rather little respect for American
>copyright law in Russia . . .

Of that I have no doubt.  But US law can reach US translators and non-US
translators working in the US, regardless what their language pairs or
directions.

>p.s. - does "the factual predicate to the non-extant exception" actually
>mean anything?

Only if the sentence "Even if there were a legal exception as you say (but
it isn't), the facts that are required in order for it to apply don't
exist" does.

Til this evening.


Michael Trittipo
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
mailto:tritt002 at tc.umn.edu

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