Members of the CIRG team helped the Union of Interpreters and Translators map the working and financial conditions of audiovisual translators
3. 11. 2025 work in culture film industry
The CIRG team (Petr Mezihorák, Michal Tomčík, and Pavel Zahrádka), in cooperation with the Audiovisual Section of the Union of Interpreters and Translators (JTP), mapped the working and financial conditions of audiovisual translators. Data collection took place from June to mid-August 2025. These are the very first data available on the situation of translators in the Czech audiovisual market.
The aim of the questionnaire survey was to identify what activities audiovisual translators perform, the price ranges of translation rates, and whether the current situation, combined with workload, is sustainably viable. We also examined whether translators negotiate their terms, whether they are members of professional organizations, whether they use machine (automatic) translation, how satisfied they are with their profession overall, and how they view its future. The results of the survey were published in a research report on the JTP website.
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CIRG – the Cultural Industries Research Group focuses on research into cultural and media industries, particularly on current issues, challenges, and conflicts arising from tensions between intellectual property law, the business models of cultural industries, the digitalization and platformization of cultural sectors, and changing consumer habits. The group’s name is an acronym of its English title, Cultural Industries Research Group. CIRG is an informal association of experts from media studies, intellectual property law, media law, media ethics, cultural economics and cultural management, sociology of culture, and data analysis. The group operates on the basis of project-based funding through applied research projects (TAČR, NAKI, EEA and Norway Grants, OP JAK Intersectoral Cooperation), basic research projects (GAČR, ZIF Bielefeld, OP VVV Excellent Research, DFG), as well as contract research (State Cinematography Fund, Association of Audiovisual Producers).
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Screen Industries in Central and Eastern Europe Research Group
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Charles University
Department of Film Studies
Lab head: Petr Szczepanik
sirg@ff.cuni.cz
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