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CEATL at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair

CEATL at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair

CEATL is delighted to be at the Bologna Children’s Bookfair (BCBF) Translator’ Café with two round tables with different stakeholders of the book chain. CEATL’s collaboration with the BCBF started in 2020 and was made official with a Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2022.

Paris 2025 AI Action Summit: International Charter on Culture and Innovation

Paris 2025 AI Action Summit: International Charter on Culture and Innovation

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. 

Children’s rights in 20 languages

Children’s rights in 20 languages

In the spring of 2024, the Bologna Children’s Bookfair asked CEATL to join in a new collective project: a video programme of literary translators reading out the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child. The initiative is part of a partnership between BCBF and CEATL that, since 2022, has promoted best practice in literary translation and copyright.

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.

CEATL co-signs a new statement on the European AI Act

CEATL co-signs a new statement on the European AI Act

CEATL, together with 12 European and International authors’, performers’ and other creative workers’ organisations, welcome the adoption of the AI Act but underline the need of an effective implementation, the safeguard of the fundamental rights of authors and performers and of transparency.