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 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.
May 21, 2024 | AI, postediting, Survey
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.
Feb 20, 2024 | AI, Survey, Working conditions
Tags: AI, Survey, Working conditions There is a lot going on in the AI field and most CEATL member associations […]
Nov 15, 2023 | AI, artificial intelligence, statement
Since the beginning of 2023, the spectacular evolution of artificial intelligence, and in particular the explosion in the use of generative AI in all areas of creation, has raised fundamental questions and sparked intense debate. CEATL has drafted its own statement detailing its stance on the use of generative AIs in the field of literary translation.
Jul 12, 2023 | British Museum, Open letter, Qiu Jin, Yiling Wang
Open letter to Hartwig Fischer and the Trustees of the British Museum in regards to Yilin Wang’s translation of the works of the poet Qiu Jin in the British Museum’s exhibition China: The Hidden Century
Apr 28, 2023 | AITI, Italy
AITI (Associazione Italiana Traduttori e Interpreti) wrote a letter to the Italian Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè and to the Italian National Tourist Board (ENIT) condemning the atrocious quality of the national campaign “Open to Meraviglia” (Open to Wonder)
Sep 26, 2022 |
On the International Translation Day, the Czech Literary Centre is organising an online conference to provide Czech and foreign literary translators with inspiration and examples of good practice from other countries …
Apr 27, 2022 | Czech Republic, Iceland, Norway
Czech Translators of the North, a professional organization associating literary translators from Nordic languages into Czech, is organizing the international conference Northern Wind of Change: Improving the working conditions of literary translators […]
Mar 13, 2022 | Sweden
Swedish literary translators facing different contracts with different publishers. Union negotiates to get fair conditions in new contract models. […]
Feb 7, 2022 | Best practices
We proudly present the Companion for Literary Translators’ Associations (https://companion.ceatl.eu/), an online platform aimed at translator communities looking for advice, encouragement or simply inspiration. […]
