Talk:乙女解剖 (Otome Kaibou)/@comment-2605:E000:112B:C17E:51A7:A274:AC64:9D10-20200210060406

So, I was confused about the note at the beginning of the article, so I read the thread, and looked up a bit about it, and...

Excuse me, but why are you using Hazuki no Yume's translations? It seems to me that you're 'punishing' her for something someone else did, and putting the English community's right to have translations over the person's wishes. Cero's actions aside,  the thread linked says; and I quote; "Secondly, if she gave permission in the past to host them but is now withdrawing it, it's like an author who has released a book and then withdrawn it from sale. I don't think an author can demand people return books they have purchased in the past.". As far as I know, she's not received any money from it- and in fact, people have used her translations for commercial purposes and made money off of them, which was actually part of the reason she wanted it taken down, if I remember correctly. A free translation isn't a book that someone purchased; it's not something you paid money for; it's someone's work done on their own time; the only thing she got out of it was "fans", and if this is the kind of treatment she can expect from "fans" of her work, I can understand why she'd want it all taken down.

You say that you don't want to respect wishes "made out of spite", but as a person speaking from a neutral perspective and as a translator, I would personally feel extremely spiteful towards a community that said that a) 'translations are easy to do, anyone can just get a japanese dictionary and do them' as excuses for why it was okay to edit a translation slightly, give no credit, and make money off of something I'd done for free, and b) act as if it's a betrayal of trust to not want said people having my translations to do whatever they want with.

You say "good faith" should legally allow you to use the translations, but are you really concerned solely with that? Does it not matter what the translators themselves feel about that?

Or does it just matter that 'the english community has translations'. If that's the case, just run it through google translate; that way, you can have free translations and you don't have to worry about respecting the rights of the translators themselves; I think that way, everyone wins.