The historical context of the genesis of the ‘right to translation’ does not coincide with that of copyright, but has a profound influence on it. Indeed, while Anne’s Statute (1710) and Millar v. Taylor (1769) and Millar v. Donaldson (1774) — the first stones of the copyright building — were shaped at the beginning of the eighteenth British century, and the Literary Property Laws of 1791 and 1793 that of the French Revolution, on the other hand, it was the entire nineteenth century that...