Translators rights in NZZ/NZZ über Übersetzerrechte
am 15.02.2006 von http://transblawg.eu
An article by Joachim Güntner in the NZZ (Welche Autorenrechte gebühren einem Übersetzer?) takes up the topic of how literary translators are to get better payment.
Publishers are loth to regard translators as another kind of author, and one of them referred to the idea of a fair price as ‘medieval’. Translators who expect better payment and also a share of profits are seen as acting above their status.
Einen Roman von - sagen wir - Umberto Eco zu übersetzen, hat einen höheren Rang als die Übertragung einer italienischen Gebrauchsanweisung ins Deutsche. Niemand bezweifelt das.
Well, that was a rather weighted example, wasn’t it? (I bet more people read the instructions than they do the Eco…)
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