Copyright of I burn Paris

[Adam Siegel]

Oops.  Bora, thanks for letting us know--the twists and turns of copyright
when applied works originally published (it would seem) in translation is
pretty circuitous.  It wouldn't surpise me if you come to find that the
ultimate legal copyright holder is the French publisher.

Adam

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Adam Siegel
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On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Adam Siegel wrote:

> Thanks for letting
>
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> Adam Siegel
> Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Librarian
> Peter J. Shields Library
> 100 North West Quad
> University of California, Davis
> Davis, CA 95616
> apsiegel at ucdavis.edu
> 530-754-6828
>
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Bora Chung wrote:
>
> > Update:
> > 1. The Polish copyright law says, as far as I understand, that the copyright is
> > valid for 70 years after the work was published. So I think I can translate the
> > 1929 and/or the 1931 version. The 1931 version is complete with all three parts
> > and I haven't found any big difference between this one and the 1974 Czytelnik
> > edition.
> >
> > 2. 1929 and 1931 editions have the same preface written by Juliusz Kaden-
> > Bandrowski. In fact they look identical, except that the 1929 edition is
> > incomplete and the 1931 edition is complete. I wonder how that happened.
> >
> > 3.The first page of 1931 version says the story was originally published for
> > the first time in French in installments. That doesn't mean it was originally
> > written in French, though. If there was a translater from Polish to French, I
> > wonder who that was, just out of curiousity.
> >
> > 4. Nothing about T. Ordon or the Russian translater so far. In fact the preface
> > to the 1930 Russian version is quite interesting but it's anonymous.
> >
> > Bora Chung
> > Slavic department
> > Indiana University
> > bochung at indiana.edu
> >
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