Comments on: Copyright and Translation: Help Your Community Yourself http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:48:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: What Are Those Unknown Characters in My Blog Comments? « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-905255 What Are Those Unknown Characters in My Blog Comments? « Lorelle on WordPress Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:22:17 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-905255 [...] Copyright and Translation: Help Your Community Yourself [...] [...] Copyright and Translation: Help Your Community Yourself [...]

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]]> By: El Oso (Pecoso) » Blog Archive » Open Software, Open Content, Open Translation Part V http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-841439 El Oso (Pecoso) » Blog Archive » Open Software, Open Content, Open Translation Part V Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:38:11 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-841439 [...] that Lorelle - who actually allows derivative works under the CC license she publishes under - doesn’t want others to translate her content, but does link to faulty Google translation versions of each of her [...] [...] that Lorelle - who actually allows derivative works under the CC license she publishes under - doesn’t want others to translate her content, but does link to faulty Google translation versions of each of her [...]

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]]> By: Weekly Digest: Back on the Farm, Improving Your Blog Series, WordPress Podcast Reporter, and More « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-823858 Weekly Digest: Back on the Farm, Improving Your Blog Series, WordPress Podcast Reporter, and More « Lorelle on WordPress Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:25:33 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-823858 [...] Copyright and Translation: Help Your Community Yourself - This article reminds everyone that if you want to translate an article and publish it on your blog - ASK FIRST. You might get a yes, but more importantly, to do so without permission is a violation of copyright and can land you in more hot water than you might need. If you really want to help your community, then rewrite the tip in your language in your words so it serves your community and isn’t a direct translation. [...] [...] Copyright and Translation: Help Your Community Yourself - This article reminds everyone that if you want to translate an article and publish it on your blog - ASK FIRST. You might get a yes, but more importantly, to do so without permission is a violation of copyright and can land you in more hot water than you might need. If you really want to help your community, then rewrite the tip in your language in your words so it serves your community and isn’t a direct translation. [...]

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]]> By: SOB Business Cafe 12-14-07 - Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas . . . You are only a stranger once. http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-814686 SOB Business Cafe 12-14-07 - Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas . . . You are only a stranger once. Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:21:24 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-814686 [...] Copyright and Translation: Help Your Community Yourself [...] [...] Copyright and Translation: Help Your Community Yourself [...]

]]> By: Stefano http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-814579 Stefano Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:59:36 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-814579 Good point Lorelle! I'm running a small blog on WordPress tips, plugin's and themes reviews, etc, for the italian WP community. There is in fact a large need of "native language" content, even larger as the WP popularity grows. But what I discovered from the WordPressMania.it's (my blog) early days is that if you want to provide useful information to your local readers you cannot just translate articles, you have to "localize" them, adatp it to your audience. Obviously I often (always?) benefit from others blogs ideas, links, argumentation, but if you want YOUR readers, you have to feed them with YOUR content. Stefano Good point Lorelle!
I’m running a small blog on WordPress tips, plugin’s and themes reviews, etc, for the italian WP community. There is in fact a large need of “native language” content, even larger as the WP popularity grows.

But what I discovered from the WordPressMania.it’s (my blog) early days is that if you want to provide useful information to your local readers you cannot just translate articles, you have to “localize” them, adatp it to your audience.
Obviously I often (always?) benefit from others blogs ideas, links, argumentation, but if you want YOUR readers, you have to feed them with YOUR content.

Stefano

]]> By: ..::DeUCeD::.. http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-813745 ..::DeUCeD::.. Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:55:41 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-813745 as we say in greece: <i>...translation is like a woman when is faithful, isn't pretty and when is pretty, isn't faithful... </i> as we say in greece:

…translation is like a woman
when is faithful, isn’t pretty
and when is pretty, isn’t faithful…

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-813676 Lorelle VanFossen Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:33:18 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-813676 @<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/copyright-and-translation-help-your-community-yourself/#comment-813628" rel="nofollow">Awangku Yusli</a>: Again, if you translate one of my articles in order to read it, using whatever machine translator is available, that isn't a copyright violation. Sure, machine translations are not always accurate, but they are improving. If you take one of my articles and translate it, through any method, and publish it, THAT is a copyright violation. If you take a small quote from one of my articles, 400 words or 10% of the article, and translate it, that qualifies as Fair Use under my copyright policy, as long as you give credit where credit is due. @Awangku Yusli:

Again, if you translate one of my articles in order to read it, using whatever machine translator is available, that isn’t a copyright violation. Sure, machine translations are not always accurate, but they are improving.

If you take one of my articles and translate it, through any method, and publish it, THAT is a copyright violation.

If you take a small quote from one of my articles, 400 words or 10% of the article, and translate it, that qualifies as Fair Use under my copyright policy, as long as you give credit where credit is due.

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