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British Museum accused of copyright infringement by Chinese poetry translator

The British Museum has been accused of copyright infringement by a Vancouver-based poet and translator, Yilin Wang. Wang has claimed that they did not receive any credit of reimbursement when their translations of poetry by Qiu Jin (1875-1907) were used in the museum’s exhibition ‘China’s Hidden Century’, which opened on 18 May 2023 and is due to close on 8 October.

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