Denmark: new agreements on the use of generative AI

May 5, 2025 | AI, Denmark

Tags: AI, DenmarkA 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...

Denmark: Translators and writers win right to compensation from the state

Oct 10, 2023 | Denmark

Tags: DenmarkIn 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...

Better basis of negotiation for Danish translators after new trade agreement

Oct 18, 2022 | Denmark, DSM, Transparency

Tags: Denmark, DSM, TransparencyThe Danish Authors’ Society , of which the Danish Translators Association is a part, has reached a collective agreement with the Danish Publishers’ association on the implementation of the transparency part of the EU’s DSM...

Europe celebrates International Translation Day 2021

Sep 30, 2021 | Bulgaria, Catalonia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom

Tags: Bulgaria, Catalonia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, United KingdomAfter a very strange 2020, things start going back to normal and, therefore, translators’...

75 years of translation celebrated in Denmark

Jan 7, 2020 | Denmark

Tags: DenmarkThe Danish Translators’ Association (DOF) was founded in 1944 and thus celebrated 75 years of existence in 2019. To mark the occasion, and not least to pay homage to the members and their contribution to the Danish literary landscape, DOF decided to...