On March 11, the IPA Copyright Committee met online for the first time ever. We would like to thank our members for attending the meeting, it was a pleasure to see almost 60 people from 38 countries joining us at this session.
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As previously reported to the IPA community, publishers and authors are closely watching a major law suit in the United States, in which member companies of the Association of American Publishers sued the Internet Archive (IA) for intentional and systematic copyright infringement.
Since 2001, cities are designated each year as UNESCO World Book Capital carry out activities with the aim of encouraging a culture of reading and diffusing its values.
IPA President Bodour Al Qasimi said: „We were saddened to learn of the loss of Lokman Slim, a valued member of the international publishing community. His murder, apparently for exercising his right to freedom of speech, calls for an international investigation into his death. We must ensure that others are not scared into silence.“
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Michiel Kolman
10 March 2021
As Chair of the IPA's Inclusive Publishing and Literacy Committee I was delighted to have the opportunity to speak to Peter Dowling, the Immediate Past President of the Publishers Association of New Zealand about their efforts to make their industry ...
Hugo Setzer
05 March 2021
For the last four years, as Vice-President and then President of the International Publishers Association, I promoted accessible publishing around the world, talking with key stakeholders of the book industry and addressing multiple audiences about t...
Michiel Kolman
11 February 2021
In 2017 the UK Publishers Association launched its Inclusivity Action Plan which was ambitious, comprehensive and not matched by any PA around the world. The UK PA is to be saluted for being a trailblazer in our industry on Diversity & Inclusion ...
Michiel Kolman
12 January 2021
Two years ago Hugo Setzer asked me to become the IPA’s Presidential Envoy for Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) in our industry. As the term of President Setzer is over my D&I envoy appointment also comes to an end but my work on this topic at ...
Hugo Setzer
16 December 2020
“The big challenges of the twenty-first century will be global in nature. […] The whole of humankind now constitutes a single civilization, with all people sharing common challenges and opportunities.”Yuval Noah Harari, in his book “21 Lessons for th...
James Taylor
30 November 2020
The hybrid 40th SCCR maintained the traditional schedule of a normal meeting and so reserved the last session for a quick review of the subjects which are vying for a position on the formal SCCR policy agenda: a miscellany it gathers togeth...
James Taylor
19 November 2020
Day 3 of the hybrid SCCR 40 saw the Exceptions and Limitations discussions take centre stage. Given the decision of Member States to limit interactions at this meeting to stock-taking, the main focus was on the 130-page report issued by WIP...
James Taylor
19 November 2020
This first meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of 2020 is an almost 100% virtual affair, save for a handful of people in the plenary chamber in Geneva, with a dramatically reduced programme of a couple of hou...
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