[stevejohnson]

It's a satire piece that suggests that authors who pretend to write translations of fictional books (such as Tolkien with LotR and Goldman with The Princess Bride) may actually be opening up their stories to plagiarists who claim to be "translating" the same source material. Or at least, that's my reading of it.

In a world where the Red Book of Westmarch actually existed, this other translation would be legal.