Shifti talk:Copyrights

What about translation of copyrighted materials? Like Russian version of the 'Pet shop of horrors'? Fanfiction?

What about copyrighted materials which have author's permission? Can I put that materials on site, or the author themself have to create account and upload it?

For any translations (manual or automatic) I believe you are usually required to have the permission of the copyright owner before performing the translation under the Bern Convention (international copyright treaty)... (Under US Copyright law an automatic translation retains the copyright that the original had - I learned this a long time ago)

Fanfic is fine — One of Bard's stories is a WH40k fanfic :)

For copyrighted materials with the authors permissions... We have done this in the past for works by Phil Geusz.

-- ShadowWolf 17:33, 6 April 2009 (UTC)