Hugo Setzer and Bodour Al Qasimi were confirmed today as the future President and Vice President of the International Publishers Association at the organisation’s General Assembly in Frankfurt. The pair will take up their new positions on 1st January 2019.
The International Publishers Association welcomes the news that the EU’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council has unanimously agreed to allow Member States to apply reduced VAT rates to eBooks, bringing them into alignment with physical books, which in most cases carried a lower rate.
To amplify the publishing industry’s support for the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) the International Publishers Association announced today a new collaboration with the United Nations (UN) to promote the SDGs through a Book Club for children linked to all seventeen of the Goals.
International Publishers congratulate Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for voting through important changes to copyright that support Europe’s creative industries.
The International Publishers Association fully supports Ragip Zarakolu as he continues to fight charges relating to statements he made in 2012. The 3rd Heavy Penal Court has now submitted a ‘red notice request’ to Interpol to ensure he appears before the court.
The International Publishers Association (IPA) is delighted to announce the appointment of Vera Castanheira as the organisation’s new Counsellor for International Copyright Policy and Programs. Castanheira will lead the IPA’s international copyright policy work and the organisation’s relations with WIPO, WTO and other supra-national agencies.
200 participants gathered in Lagos, Nigeria, to attend the first IPA Regional Seminar on Publishing in Africa. The seminar brought together notable publishers and others from across Africa and beyond and included 2007 Prix Voltaire recipient Trevor Ncube from Zimbabwe.