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On this World Book and Copyright Day, European Writers’ Council (EWC), the European Council of Literary Translators’ Association (CEATL) and the Federation of European Publishers (FEP) are calling on the Member States and the European Commission to protect human-created books – label AI-generated products and reserve the application of any cultural public funding to works created by humans.
CEATL joins 38 European and international rightholders’ organisations in signing this joint statement opposing the 3rd draft of the Code of Practice for the implementation of the European AI Act.
CEATL, EFJ (the European Federation of Journalists) and EWC (the European Writers’ Council) express their strong opposition to the third draft of the EU’s Code of Practice under the EU’s AI Act legislation in a joint letter (read it here) to Henna Virkkunen (Executive Vice-president of the European Commission for technological sovereignty, security and democracy) and the EU AI Board.
15 representative organisations of authors and performers sent a joint letter to EU Executive Vice-President Virkkunen and Commissionner Micallef about the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice.
The Paris AI Summit intends to promote reliable, sustainable and responsible AI. For the first time at this level, intellectual property is being discussed.
This is an essential global issue that cannot be ignored. That is why 38 international organisations representing all the creative and cultural sectors are today issuing a call to build a future that reconciles the development of AI with respect for copyright and related rights.
On Dec 4 CEATL together with 12 other authors’, performers’ organisations, representing hundreds of thousands of EU’s cultural and creative industries signed a joint statement to the European Commission on the Impact of AI […]
We are horrified to read in The Bookseller about Veen Bosch & Keuning’s “limited experiment with some Dutch authors, for their books to be translated into English language using AI”. Veen Bosch & Keuning claim that they are “not creating books with AI, it all starts and ends with human action” – yet this is patently not the case.
In examing the technology of generative AI models in detail, two professors from Germany have reached the conclusion that the training of such models is more than a simple case of text and data mining. It involves clear copyright infringement […]
As a new EU policy cycle is about to start, CEATL, together with 12 European and International organisations representing the voice of writers, translators, performers, composers, songwriters, screen directors, screenwriters, visual artists, journalists, and other creative workers, co-signed a joint letter to the newly-elected European Parliament.
In La Lettura, the culture supplement of Il Corriere della Sera, Cristina Taglietti wrote about AI and literary translation, mentioning CEATL’s statement, issue 10 of Counterpoint and the Strasbourg Conference.
The Translators’ Section of the Swedish Writers’ Union commissioned an anonymous artist to create the illustration to this post. The Union is of the firm belief that literary works written by human writers require and deserve human translators.
In October 2023, CEATL conducted a survey about the impact of AI on literary translators’ work and income. Approximately 1,500 literary translators from 34 CEATL member associations answered the questionnaire.