Copyright News

The November meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) was as intense as always. But the week-long...

IPA President, Michiel Kolman, addressed the European Parliament in Brussels last month and talked about the rise of technology and about how publishers maintain the...

This year, the traditional Anti-Piracy Breakfast held at Frankfurt Book Fair and co-organized every year by the International Publishers Association (IPA), the Association of American...

The Société québécoise de gestion collective des droits de reproduction, known as Copibec, has launched a 'notice to members' across a range of international francophone news...

Current IPA Secretary General José Borghino and his predecessor Jens Bammel have co-written a chapter for a book compiled by the World Intellectual...

German investigators have succeeded in shutting down a Tonga-based website that was illegally selling thousands of downloadable books and journals – the majority of them...

Educational publishers from Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates will next week demonstrate ways they are changing classroom learning, before international delegates...

No one expected US judge Pierre Leval or preeminent American copyright lawyer Jon Baumgarten – respective champions of the ‘for’ and ‘against’ camps...

Delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva are this week deliberating the relationship between copyright and ‘traditional knowledge’, a conversation...

The Quebec Court of Appeal has authorized a class action by the Société québécoise de gestion collective des droits de reproduction (better known...