Question Which companies to stay away from during novel translations.

I recently heard that there are certain publishing companies to stay away from when you are doing unlicensed translations, such as D&C Media. So I was wondering what other publishing firms a translator should stay away from, if they don't want a law suit on their lands.

More specifically which companies will actively search to find unlicensed translations. Which companies have stopped the most translation of their novels?
(The biggest no-no's)

 

I believe that people also stay away from Qidian.

 

Usually qidian gets many of their novels translated through their own publishing platform, Webnovel, right?

 

every company to be honest. Any company will sue you if you are not doing licensed translations.

 

True, but I was wondering along the lines of which companies will activately search around, or do they all do that?
Straight up "witch hunt" mode, every so often.

 

What language? I've heard that most KR publishers are pretty harsh with translators, which is why most KR groups are underground.

 

Yes they all do that periodically. Ironically jp publisher is the least to do so.

 

Yes

 

Same as Covid: Stay away from people

 

Tough question to answer. This is answered assuming we're talking strictly about Chinese webnovels.

When you look at Qidian, you also have to take into account their subsidiary companies, which is quite a number of them. Zongheng is another one. ZZWenxue is another one. Bravo novels is another one. Of course, these companies also have subsidiary companies. This would take me a while to list, so I'm not going there.

In this day and age, you also need to factor in official English publishers, e.g. WW, volare etc.

Give it some more time, and even more publishers will join the party, lol.

 

Cuz the japanese doesn't care about the readers/audience/supporters outside japan, the only ones that care are the English publishers

 

So basically every company is a dangerous one since technically unlicensed translations is illegal.

 

If you're going for a short series from a company without an English division yet, you might get to finish it before they come out with one. Personally, I wouldn't take the risk of attempting a series with 1000 chapters from a publisher like 17k because it might not be that long before they come out with an English division at the current rate in this industry. It would suck to have to drop something after translating a few hundred chapters of it . As we speak, there are already companies developing English divisions.

 

For jp novels Yen Press.
For cn novels Qidian.
For kr all of them.