Translation and Intellectual Property Rights

Download or read book Translation and Intellectual Property Rights written by Bird & Bird (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of some of the main intellectual property right issues relevant to the domain of translation. It focuses on copyright and database rights at international, European, and national levels. National legal regimes in four European Member States (i.e., Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom) have been compared for illustration purposes. The study takes an "upstream" and "downstream" approach in order to answer the following three questions: (i) Are source documents protected by copyright and how does that protection affect the right to translate them? (Upstream or "input" approach, i.e., focus on the rights on the pre-existing source documents). (ii) Are translations protected by copyright and, if so, how? (Downstream or "output" approach, i.e., focus on the rights on the work product). (iii) Are databases that segment and align source documents and translations protected and, if so, how? (Link between the input and the output). The study covers both traditional translations and machine-aided translations. The main principles and findings developed in the Study are summarised below.