May 7, 2025 | AI, Open letter
On 13 May, EU national ministers responsible for culture policies will convene in Brussels for the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council. Ahead of this meeting, Spain and Portugal have called for a discussion on the value of the cultural and creative sectors in AI development, focusing on the importance of safeguarding copyright and related rights, as well as ensuring transparency in the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice under the AI Act.
May 5, 2025 | AI, Denmark
A long and hard, but in the end fruitful dialogue between the Danish Translators Association, the Danish Authors Society and the Danish Publishers Association has led to a mutual agreement on crediting practices when it comes to translators and post-editors of machine translation. The industry-wide statement confirms that post-editing of machine translations should not be eligible for PLR and includes a recommendation for publishers on how to credit post-editors of machine translations so as to avoid illegitimate access to PLR-remuneration.
Apr 23, 2025 | AI, Transparency, World Book Day
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.
Mar 28, 2025 | AI Act, CoP, joint statement
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.
Mar 22, 2025 | AI Act, Code of Practice, EC
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.
Feb 19, 2025 | AI, Code of Practice
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.
Feb 10, 2025 | AI, Charter, Paris, Summit
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.
Dec 6, 2024 | AI, EU, Joint letter
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 […]
Nov 6, 2024 | IA, Veen Bosch & Keuning
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.
Sep 9, 2024 | AI, Austria, copyright, Germany
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 […]
Jul 25, 2024 | AI, EU policy, Joint letter
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.
Jun 12, 2024 | AI IA Italy
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.