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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).
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.
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 […]
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.
Tags: AI, Austria, Europe, Europe; European Union;, Germany, Open letter, Switzerland The three German-language translators’ organisations IGÜ (Austria), A*dS (Switzerland) […]
Tags: AI, Survey, Working conditions There is a lot going on in the AI field and most CEATL member associations […]
In 2021, the Danish Authors’ Society (of which DOF is a part), the Danish Publishers’ Association and the collecting society CopyDan instituted proceedings against the state-owned library service, Nota, which provides audiobooks for visually impaired citizens and those who have trouble reading.
An authors’ manifesto was signed by Strade, an Italian member-association of CEATL, the Italian illustrators’ association AI – Autori di immagini and ICWA – Italian Children’s Writers Association. The manifesto was launched in December 2022 during the Rome book fair “Più libri più liberi”. […]
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)
Polish CEATL delegate Justyna Czechowska and the Spanish translator Carmen Montes Cano have been awarded the 2023 Interpretation Prize of The Swedish Academy. They will each receive 60,000 SEK (approximately €6,000) for their valuable and important interpretations of Swedish literature into foreign languages […]
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 […].
The 14th Swiss Symposium for Literary Translators will be held in Maison Rousseau et Littérature, Geneva, on 3rd December 2022 …