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by schoen 4122 days ago
17 USC ยง106 refers to the right "to prepare derivative works" as an exclusive right of a copyright holder, so creating the derivative work in the first place could be a copyright infringement under U.S. copyright law even if it is never distributed to anyone. So you can potentially infringe copyright in your basement by making a fan translation of some movie or novel into your language.