June 22 (UPI) — The British Museum has admitted to utilizing translations of poems by Qiu Jin with out the permission of the translator in a brand new exhibition.

The translator, Yilin Wang, who makes use of she/they pronouns, had blasted the establishment in a series of tweets for utilizing the interpretation of Qiu Jin’s poems with out crediting them. Qiu Jin was a Chinese revolutionary and feminist author who was executed after a failed rebellion towards the Qing dynasty in 1907.

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“It’s come to my attention that your exhibit ‘China’s hidden century’ uses my translations of Qiu Jin’s poetry, but you never contacted me for permission. Please note this is a copyright infringement!” Wang stated of their preliminary tweet.

Wang later demanded that each one their translations be faraway from the exhibit, together with all exhibition books and signage, until the museum “makes a proper offer” to compensate them.

“Recently we realized that permissions and acknowledgement for a translation by Yilin Wang had been inadvertently omitted from our exhibition China’s hidden century. This was an unintentional human error for which the Museum has apologized to Yilin Wang,” the museum stated in an announcement.

The British Museum stated it has taken down all of their translations within the exhibit and provided them monetary cost for the period of time the translations appeared within the establishment.

“The British Museum takes copyright permissions seriously. Across the range of our work, we make every effort to contact the owners of rights in text, images, print and digital media,” the museum stated.

“This was a particularly complicated project and we recognize we made an inadvertent mistake and fell short of our usual standards.”

Museum officers stated the establishment labored with greater than 400 individuals from 20 international locations on the exhibit and that staff have been topic to “personal attacks on social media” from Wang’s supporters.

“We stand behind our colleagues fully and request those responsible for these personal attacks to desist as we work with Yilin Wang to resolve the issues they have raised concerning the use of their translations within the exhibition,” the museum stated.

Wang adopted up after the British Museum’s assertion and stated that the she had acquired the provide for cost.

However, they stated additionally they acquired an e-mail from the museum that reads: “We will not be reinstating the translations in the exhibition that have been removed following your complaint, and therefore you will not be acknowledged in the exhibition as your work will not be featured.”