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I take the liberty of reposting an entry from IPKAT, the trademark blog:

bq. Translations into English

IPKat co-blogmeister Jeremy is looking for a bit of assistance from someone who can translate trade mark cases from Spanish to English with a view to reporting them in the European Trade Mark Reports. Ideally the translator should be a native English-speaker. There is some remuneration, but it is not at all generous. Some occasional help is also needed with German trade mark and copyright cases, also for a relative pittance.

The real rewards are (i) the satisfaction of seeing one’s work in print and (ii) being able to put on your CV the fact that you’ve translated cases for the ETMR and its sister publication the European Copyright and Design Reports. If you’re interested in having a go, email Jeremy here.

The authors of IPKAT are always anxious to obtain the latest decisions in English and often comment on the time it takes to get hold of a translation.

Artikel von Sergey Frank in der Reihe “Internationales Geschäft” – “Verträge auf Englisch“, in FAZ.NET.

An article on the dangers of drafting international contracts in English, the problems of taking over boilerplate expressions uncritically.

I could imagine a large number of problems, but the article doesn’t go into great detail.

bq. Aus Angst vor Vertragsfallen durch falsche eigene Formulierungen übernehmen Juristen oft die traditionellen Vorgaben aus früheren Fällen. Diese sind häufig nicht eindeutig verständlich und/oder passen nicht hundertprozentig auf den gegebenen Sachverhalt.

Mangelhafte Vertragsentwürfe auf nationaler Ebene sind genauso peinlich und schädlich auf internationaler Ebene. Das Risiko erhöht sich durch mehrfache Übersetzungen.
Juristische Texte aus verschiedenen Länden variieren sehr in Länge, Komplexität, Bedeutung und Konsequenz.

(From Handakte WebLAWg)

Article in the Law Gazette by Rupert White on law blogs in the UK (12 January).

Via What’s New on the UK Legal Web?

Popbitch reports (20 January) that an episode of South Park featuring Tom Cruise is not to be shown in the United Kingdom. The episode can be seen here. It had Tom Cruise locking himself in Stan’s closet and used the punchline ‘Tom Cruise won’t come out of the closet’ twenty-eight times.

bq. The final line of the show is
Tom telling the “South Park” kids “I’m gonna
sue you! I’m gonna sue you in England!”

According to The Sun, Cruise is litigious and doesn’t like the episode, and the channel Paramount didn’t want to take the risk.

Eine Folge von South Park, in der Tom Cruise sich in einen Schrank einschließt und durch ein Wortspiel als Homosexueller beschrieben wird, wird in England nicht gezeigt, da der Sender Paramount Angst vor einer Klage hat.

Many thanks to Trevor (link may be temporarily down).

I seem to have missed this one, but Céline quotes from it.

The blog started on December 11:

bq. In my opinion, the public doesn´t really understand what an interpreter does. There are all kinds of interpreters: U.N. interpreters, conference interpreters, escort interpreters, seminar interpreters, court interpreters … sign-language interpreters. Nicole Kidman played an interpreter in The Interpreter, but the film didn´t do a great job of describing that branch of interpreting, let alone the kind performed inside a courtroom.