[scroy]

As another comment points out, Le Guin herself does not call this a translation, so we shouldn't misrepresent it (although it might be my favorite English version).

However, it's not in the public domain. Her work deserves all the attention it can get, but I'd rather not see it pirated wholesale.

[ACow_Adonis]

What on earth is it about intellectual property that breaks someone's mind so much that genuinely, when presented with a translation of a 2000 year old text that itself is based on another authors translation and who's translator is now dead, they go onto a website to proclaim "it's not in the public domain!".

[andsoitis]

> However, it's not in the public domain. Her work deserves all the attention it can get, but I'd rather not see it pirated wholesale.

I don't disagree. Does github have a way to report copyright violations?

I just bought the real book from Powell's. Several buying options: https://www.ursulakleguin.com/lao-tzu-the-tao-te-ching

[gessha]

> Does github have a way to report copyright violations?

What would reporting this GitHub repo do? Is the late Ursula K. Le Guin going to get a check in the afterlife? Her historical stance on copyright was based on consent. What happens when the author passes away?

[andsoitis]

I was wondering whether GitHub has a process for dealing with reports of obvious copyright violations. They don’t need thr copyright owner to weigh in.

[scroy]

I think the way to do it is to notify her estate and let them pursue it or not. But I'm really just here to say how I'm happy to pay her estate and publishers and everyone else should too.