Italian term
I diritti di traduzione sono ancora disponibili?
I have found an American book that might be of interest to an Italian publisher, but I need to know whether the translation rights of this book are still available, so I am writing to the American publisher to find out the situation. I’m not sure, however, if my attempt “I would like to know whether the translation rights of this book are still available for Italy” is correct...
Thank you so much for your help!
| 4 | are the translation rights still going ('up for grabs')? |
Adrian MM.
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Sep 13, 2023 15:36: Daniela Cannarella changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
PRO (1): Adrian MM.
Non-PRO (3): Tom in London, Susanna Martoni, Daniela Cannarella
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Proposed translations
Austria
Retd.T&I, Barrister & Austro-Advokat
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish) 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 5 more.
are the translation rights still going ('up for grabs')?
Anyway, a canny and shrewd question, short of the enquirer doing an international copyright search I now advise all-comers to do.
A UK student contemporary of mine never got paid for a retranslation into BrE of a 250-page Russian literary novel that, unbeknownst to him, had already been translated and the publishers put paid to...
. as qualification for the Champions League was still up for grabs.
| Thank you so much, Adrian, for your suggestion! |
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philgoddard
: I think this is too colloquial.
3 hrs
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You think, though the whole point was to sneak in copyright search advice.
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Discussion
Or, last but not least, I can give you points, since I also have the impression that Adrian's suggestion is a little too informal..
what do you think!