Tags: TurkeyAyşe Berktay, a translator, writer and activist in Turkey, will be awarded the 2013 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Ayşe Berktay, a member of the Turkish association of Translators (ÇEVBİR), was arrested on 14 September 2011 and is currently...
Tags: Finland98 subtitlers have resigned from Broadcast Text International in Finland after having been outsourced there by MTV Media, a major commercial broadcasting company. On October 1st, 110 subtitlers working under freelance contracts were outsourced to BTI...
Tags: GermanyTwo years ago, in August 2010, the German website of Amazon published a remarkable ‘customer review’ of Arturo Graf’s Satan, Beelzebub and Lucifer: The Devil in Art, published by Parkstone International / Kroemer (May 2009): ‘The text written by Arturo...
Tags: TurkeyOn 8 July another hearing took place at an Istanbul court in the two court cases started last year against two translators and their publishers. One case concerns the translation and publication of the novel The Soft Machine by William Burroughs,...
Tags: TurkeyPlagiarism of translations is still one of the problems haunting the Turkish book market. It is particularly widespread among publications of the classics, popular novels of nineteenth century French and Russian authors such as War and Peace by Tolstoy,...
Tags: FinlandThe Finnish Supreme Court set a significant precedent concerning copyright on 4 November 2011. The case involved the publication of a book translation as a Loisto pocketbook without the translator’s permission. The case had been pending since 2006, when...
