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Italy: Introducing Calibro, a confederation of authors

Italy: Introducing Calibro, a confederation of authors

A new organization has been founded in Italy to represent the main authors’ categories in the publishing industry: writers, literary translators, illustrators, and comic book writers have now joined forces in Calibro, Confederazione Autrici e Autori del Libro (Confederation of Book Authors).

Denmark: new agreements on the use of generative AI

Denmark: new agreements on the use of generative AI

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.

Denmark: new agreements on the use of generative AI

AI Training is Copyright Infringement

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 […]

CEATL on “translatoids” in Italian press

CEATL on “translatoids” in Italian press

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.

Italy: AITI calls out to the Minister of Tourism

Italy: AITI calls out to the Minister of Tourism

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)

Legal News from France, Poland and Italy

Legal News from France, Poland and Italy

Important and interesting agreements have been reached between on the one hand translators, other categories of authors and the other hand publishers in France, Poland and Italy. The scope of the agreements include the conditions of exploitation of the authors’ works and best practices […].