Relay Translation.

James Folta writes at Literary Hub about what is alleged to be an unfair business practice: Translator and writer Lin King released a statement on Instagram on Tuesday laying out her claim of copyright infringement of her Booker-Prize-winning English translation of Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-Zǐ, originally written in Mandarin and titled Táiwān Màn Yóu Lù (《臺灣漫遊錄》). King discovered that a European publisher was “planning to release a translation of the book that was translated from my English text,” known as a “relay translation” where a book is translated into a third language from a previous translation. King sent “repeated warnings” to this publisher that this new translation wasn’t legal. “As I am the sole copyright owner of the English Taiwan Travelogue,” she writes, “an unauthorized third-language translation violates my copyright.” King has begun legal proceedings against this unnamed European publisher. King’s defense of translation as an art form are the most moving…