Fondazione LIA, in collaboration with AIE, is organizing an online seminar “European Accessibility Act – Mainstreaming accessible ebook distribution: accessibility metadata ingestion and display” which will take place on Monday 22September from 16:30 to 18:00 CEST (Geneva time). For more details click here.
With the European Accessibility Act in force since June 2025, ensuring the availability and visibility of accessibility metadata has become more important than ever. The complexity and technical nature of this metadata can pose challenges, which the recent W3C User Experience Guides for Displaying Accessibility Metadata 2.0 address by offering practical guidance for user-friendly display.
This seminar will feature a roundtable discussion with representatives from Fondazione LIA, EDItEUR, Kobo, Bookwire, De Marque and Edigita, six key players leading the charge in accessible content distribution. Together, they will share how they are working to make accessibility metadata both visible and actionable, how they collaborate with publishers, and what lies ahead for the industry.
Registration is subject to the payment of a fee, using the registration form that you can download from the course page. IPA members and their members benefit from a discounted price of 220 euros + VAT (22%) instead of 250 + VAT.
Please return the registration form to segreteria@ediser.it by 16 September.
For the third year, the Italian Publishers Association (AIE) organises an international seminar on 29 September from 09:30 to 13:00 CEST entitled “Who is afraid of artificial intelligence? Copyright protection, licensing and business models for publishing”, an opportunity for those who want to understand how to deal with the legal and business implications of artificial intelligence in the European and global context, with national and international speakers.
Three thematic focuses for the 2025 edition
- The European and International Regulatory Framework: An update on the status of European regulation and an analysis of key international legal cases and an assessment of their impact on the global publishing industry.
- New forms of licensing: An overview of recent agreements between publishers and AI operators, from direct licences to new licensing platforms and a reflection on emerging models and opportunities for the sector.
- Comparing strategies: An international panel to analyse concrete examples of the evolution of business models to the new context, with practical insights, operational strategies and visions being compared.
Translation service (Ita-Eng/Eng-Ita) will be provided. Registration is subject to the payment of a fee, using the appropriate form available on the course page, to be sent to segreteria@ediser.it by 23 September 2025. IPA members and their members are entitled to a 10% discount on the standard fee.