晚清时期民间出版人的翻译版权意识——以廉泉与张元济为例

Translation Copyright Sense of Civil Publishers in Late Qing Dynasty——LIAN Quan and ZHANG Yuanji

晚清时期,随着西学翻译的大量增加,翻译书籍的盗版日益严重。为了维护自身权益或民族利益,廉泉与张元济等民间出版人士,纷纷以个人名义并代表各自的出版机构,向政府提出翻译版权诉求。他们认为,版权保护事关译者利益,乃至社会的文化教育进步,政府有义务制定政策,实施版权保护。对于民间人士提出的版权要求,政府及时以文告形式予以积极回应,此举对于促进晚清翻译事业的进一步繁荣具有重要意义。

In the late Qing Dynasty, western knowledge translation has substantially increased and piracy of translation became increasingly serious. To protect their own rights or national interest, civil publishers like LIAN Quan and ZHANG Yuanji had successively made the appeal of translation copyright to the government either in their own names or on behalf of their employers. They believed that copyright protection was related to the interests of translators, as well as cultural and educational progress of society, so the government should assume obligation to develop policies and implement copyright protection. With regard to these copyright claims, the government made positive responses by issuing official notices, which had contributed to the further prosperity of late Qing translation business.