{"id":5670,"date":"2015-04-03T11:18:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T11:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2015-04-03T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T11:35:08","slug":"petition-to-end-copyright-rustling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5670","title":{"rendered":"Petition to end copyright rustling"},"content":{"rendered":"

No Peanuts for Translators has posted a petition on Change.org to collect signatures for an end to copyright rustling – the deliberate deprivation of intellectual property rights for translators of literary works. Under copyright, literary translations are considered to be derivative works<\/a> and their authors are entitled to royalties.<\/p>\n

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The text of the petition reads as follows:<\/p>\n

Recent research shows that translators\u2019 copyrights are \u201crustled\u201d one third of the time in trade and commercial publishing\u2014and eighty percent of the time in university-press publishing.<\/p>\n

Simply put, copyright rustling happens when a book publisher takes something from a translator that rightfully belongs to the translator alone: copyright to his or her work.<\/p>\n

Some of the biggest copyright rustlers in 2014 also happened to be some of the biggest publishers of translations in English\u2014Europa Editions, Atlantyca, New Vessel Press, Gallic Books, Columbia University Press, Skyhorse Publishing, Yale University Press, Bloomsbury, Routledge, and others. (See Copyright \u201cRustling\u201d in English-Language Translation: How Translators Keep (and Lose) Rights to Their Work\u2014Data from Translations Published in 2014; http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/lzpz2cm<\/a>.)**<\/p>\n

Copyright rustling is not inevitable. It is not \u201cstandard industry practice.\u201d It is not necessary for the translator-publisher relationship to function nor does it help publishers \u201cafford\u201d to publish translations.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s cut through the nonsense. Copyright rustling is a symptom of translators\u2019 lack of negotiating power and of publishers\u2019 willingness to exploit that weakness to their own advantage.<\/p>\n

No Peanuts! calls upon all publishers of translations in English:<\/p>\n

* Take copyright off the table. Negotiate fair terms with translators for licensing the use of their copyright, but recognize that the translation belongs to the translator who is allowing you to use it.<\/p>\n

* Take copyright off the table. Recognize translators\u2019 legal and moral rights to their intellectual property.<\/p>\n

* Take copyright off the table. Stop coercing translators by making copyright transfer a take-it-or-leave-it condition of publishing contracts.<\/p>\n

Mutual respect always. Copyright rustling never! <\/p>\n

(Learn more about this issue on the No Peanuts! blog: https:\/\/nopeanuts.wordpress.com\/resistance\/stop-copyright-rustling<\/a>.) Or write: nopeanuts.fortranslators@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n** At the close of the campaign, a copy of the petition & signatures will be delivered to the following publishers. If you’d like to contact them directly in the meantime, their addresses are listed in Copyright Rustling: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/lzpz2cm<\/a>. Atlantyca, Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Cistercian Publications, Columbia University Press, Duke University Press, Europa Editions, Fordham University Press, Gallic Books, Glagoslav Publications, Hackett Publishing, HarperCollins, Harvard University Press, Ignatius Press, Karnac Books, New Vessel Press, Palgrave\/McMillan, Princeton University Press, Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield, Skyhorse Publishing, Stanford University Press, SUNY Press, Syracuse University Press, University of Chicago Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sign the petition<\/a> and help prevent fellow linguists being ripped off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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