_8. As to right of translation._--The present bill makes a radical departure from the present statute in respect to the right of translation of a copyrighted work into other languages. Under the present statute, as above noted and presented in the brief cited, the right of translation inheres in the author as author, conditioned only upon copyright having been obtained of his original work, but not conditioned upon that copyright remaining in him. His assignment of the original copyright does not carry to the purchaser, or divest from the author, the right of translation. The translation, when made by the author, is his own product. He may copyright it or not as he pleases; but the owner of the original copyright has no right in the translation unless expressly conveyed to him (which may be done, of course, by express mention in the conveyance of the original copyright, or by the transference of the manuscript of the original work before copyright, putting the purchaser in the position fully of the author as to all the rights arising out of authorship). The present bill, however, makes the right of translation not merely one which is conditioned upon the existence of copyright of the original work, but an essential and integral part of that copyright, so that it will pass with the assignment of the copyright without special mention, and the proprietor of the copyright, and not the author, would thereafter have the right of translation. The author could not translate his own work without infringing the copyright which he had sold to the proprietor. Any translation, however maladroit or misleading, which the copyright owner--publisher--might approve would pass under the author's name as his work into the foreign language, and he would have no voice to protest against the libel, no power to remedy the injury by putting out a correct translation.