Translations share no lines, but original author has copyright

Posted Feb 1, 2012 11:37 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Clarification on a few points by RiotingPacifist
Parent article: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

If I translate a book from Dutch to English, my work won't contain any lines of the original work, but the author of the Dutch version will still have copyright.

Whether broad copyright is good or bad for us is another debate, but we have to acknowledge that it is today broader than just exact words.