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Unsolicited translation

Grey Wolf 🚫

Someone just let me know that they're translating my story into another language. This doesn't bother me, as long as I'm credited (and not blamed for any mistranslations, naturally), but I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else and, if so, how you responded. I can't check the translation beyond Google Translate (which produces something that seems, on a quick check, to be a relatively faithful translation; there are glitches, but they look like the sort of glitches Google Translate introduces).

Similarly, if there are issues that I'm not thinking of that would make it better to say no, let me know. I don't see a way of actually preventing it, but I could always say I don't want them to continue.

I wouldn't be happy if they were making money off my work, especially since I'm not (so far, anyway), but that doesn't appear to be the case.

Switch Blayde 🚫

@Grey Wolf

I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else

Someone asked me if he could translate a story to French. I said no because i don't understand French and wouldn't know what he wrote. I have no idea if he did it anyway. It was to be put on a French site.

DBActive 🚫

@Grey Wolf

You might want to read this:

https://www.inter-contact.de/en/blog/copyright-for-translations#:~:text=In%20other%20words%2C%20copyright%20law,as%20the%20threshold%20of%20originality.

Crumbly Writer 🚫

@Grey Wolf

Although it's dangerous to allow anyone to 'modify' your work, as it could screw up your own copyright under the right/wrong circumstances, but ... at the very least, I'd hire a native French Speaker on Fivrr and pay the standard $5 usd to review the translations before consenting to the complete translations (just like editors, most commercial translators will offer a FREE 'sample edit/translation').

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