auteur des textes

English translation: author

05:32 Oct 1, 2010

French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts) / Contract to publish comic strip album

French term or phrase: auteur des textes

This is a deceptively simple one. I am translating an agreement for the assignment of rights to adapt a comic strip/graphic novel-type work and two 'auteurs' are mentioned:

auteur des dessins
auteur des textes

who are then referred to jointly as 'l'auteur'

In the context of, say, a children's book, I would simply call these the illustrator and the author, but it's not so simple in the world of the cartoon/graphic novel (where usually the artwork has the most impact). Should one be referring to 'the author of the artwork' and 'the author of the text'? Or is there a more accepted phrase?

In terms of context, there's not much specific to these two terms, but here is a further reference to the work in question from a parallel contract which I am also translating in this connection (L'AUTEUR here refers, again, to both the 'auteurs' mentioned above acting jointly):

"L'AUTEUR, qui possède toutes les prérogatives à lui conférées par le Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle (Loi n° 92-597 du 1er Juillet 1992), cède à titre exclusif à L’EDITEUR qui l'accepte, le droit de reproduction et de représentation des bandes dessinées qu'il a réalisées pour le Tome .. de la série intitulée « ……………. »"

Charlotte Allen KudoZ activity Questions: 308 (3 open) (15 closed without grading) Answers: 434 United Kingdom
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English translation:author

Explanation:
see my answer for your other question on the same topic.

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SMcG (X)
Belgium
Local time: 15:28

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author

SMcG (X)

creator of the text

Melissa McMahon

author of texts

mimi 254

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peer agreement (net): +2

author

Explanation:
see my answer for your other question on the same topic.

Reference: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_d%27auteur
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_copyright_law

SMcG (X)
Belgium
Local time: 15:28
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

1 hr confidence:

creator of the text

Explanation:
As per my answer to your other question also.

Melissa McMahon
Australia
Local time: 23:28
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

2 hrs confidence:

author of texts

Explanation:
person who wrote the texts

mimi 254
Local time: 14:28
Native speaker of:

English,

French

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