Let's say you wrote an article in Chinese on your own website. Then sometime later I took your article and translated it word for word to English and posted it on Steemit without getting approval from you or even linking to your work.

I think you would feel like I plagiarized your work. If that post made money I think you would feel like you are owed that money since you are the creator of that work.

In my opinion this is exactly what you did.

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