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Machine translation disqualifies translators from credited fiction work
Original: Talked to someone who has been dabbling in translating fiction. This guy was horrified when I told him that if he uses m
A Swedish archaeologist reports a conversation with an amateur fiction translator who was startled to learn that using machine translation for anything beyond checking individual words means he cannot put his name on the finished translation. Under most publishers' rules and copyright frameworks, such work is ineligible for translator credit and protections, since authorship is reserved for human translation.
Why now: Ongoing debate about how generative and machine translation tools affect authorship, credit and copyright in literary work
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- Talked to someone who has been dabbling in translating fiction. This guy was horrified when I told him that if he uses machine translation for more than dictionary checks of individual words, he can't put his name on the translation and the work is ineligible under most… · mrundkvist@archaeo.social · 39
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