This volume analyzes the legal and financial status of the literary translator, the cinema-adapter and the software localizer, and offers the norm, the jurisprudence and the contracts related to the subject. These three language professionals carry out key roles in strategic fields which are related to copyright: publishing, cinema and television, and software and the internet. Topics which are highlighted in this volume are: the translation contract, mutual obligations of translators and publishers, compensation and fiscal issues, internet and copyright, the intellectual property of translation memories, etc.