Fair-Play and Collaboration: Ukraine
Intellectual Property, Working Conditions and Collaborative Actions for Writers and Literary Translators in Ukraine
15-16 Dec 2012, Lviv, Ukraine
Authors and translators, mostly from the younger generation that will shape tomorrow's literary landscape in Ukraine, had gathered for a two-day
workshop in Lviv to discuss what can they jointly do to improve standards in the book trade. The workshop entitled Fair-Play and Collaboration was opened by Orest Sheyka of the Lviv Regional Council
who confirmed the local authorities' commitment to developing Lviv as a city of books and literature.
The workshop aimed at:
Participants worked hard to device different standard author/publishers contracts that acknowledge interests of all parties and take care of the nature of the book and translation business. They also welcomed the Ukrainian version of CEATL's Hexalogue that sets up key principles of a new code of conduct.
Now that there is a new collective association at place, we have all the conditions to see a change taking shape. Book Platform project will support the initiative and assist it gaining strength and contacts also internationally.
As one of the participants put it:
Ну от і почали дізнаватися про чесні правила гри. На воркшопі тільки найліпші і найперспективніші.
Pictures by Ukrainian photo agency LUFA
The workshop aimed at:
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providing practical knowledge on the various aspects of the rights of writers and translators, ranging from ones related to legal and contractual issues
(copyrights, remuneration) to social ones (freedom of speech, working conditions, visibility) and
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triggering a platform for discussion and exchange within the Ukrainian literary and translators' community, and with colleagues from the European Union as
well as to give examples of international practices.
Participants worked hard to device different standard author/publishers contracts that acknowledge interests of all parties and take care of the nature of the book and translation business. They also welcomed the Ukrainian version of CEATL's Hexalogue that sets up key principles of a new code of conduct.
Now that there is a new collective association at place, we have all the conditions to see a change taking shape. Book Platform project will support the initiative and assist it gaining strength and contacts also internationally.
As one of the participants put it:
Ну от і почали дізнаватися про чесні правила гри. На воркшопі тільки найліпші і найперспективніші.
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17.12.2012
Book Platform Project
a comment shared in facebook by катерина міхаліцина: "thanks for the workshop! it was really useful and the atmosphere was just excellent)))"