Sell translations of articles

Greetings for everybody from a warm Madrid.

I know a person that made translations of some articles of a magazine.

Do you think that if she buys any samples of the suitable sample of the magazine, she could sell a copy of the corresponding translation? Maybe one copy per sample?

Anyone can buy any publication, and with the purchase, he obtains implicitly a licence to use it. But the content of the licence is not generally delimited.

There is usually an notice of copyright, but

• does this mean that the not-mentioned-actions in the notice are permitted, and so this is the content of the licence? (the transformation or translation of the work is not mention as prohibited, so we could take it as permitted)
• or the notice is just a warning, and the content of the license is delimited by custom?

For example. She can give the magazine away, and even getting the prize she paid for it: can she give it with its translation, and purchase a prize for the translation? Who receives the review, is allowed (in many countries) to do copies for private use; do you think that he can also make or obtain a translation, for private use? Will not he be allowed to ask somebody to make a translation for him?

Carlos de Miguel
Sanchez y de Miguel / Castellana 177 - 28046 Madrid Voice: +34 1 579 30 83 - Fax: +34 1 544 74 67 <ectil06[_at_]sis.ucm.es> Received on Wed Jul 23 1997 - 11:59:55 GMT