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Educational publishers back WIPO creative industries plan for emerging markets

The IPA-led Educational Publishers Forum (EPF) has pledged its full support for an ambitious World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) plan to bolster the...

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IPA secretaries general pen chapter for WIPO tome on ‘Traditional Knowledge’

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

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Costa Rican Vice-President, Ana Helena Chacón, opening the workshop.
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Publishers are 100% behind the Marrakesh Treaty, IPA VP reminds Costa Rican meeting

This week I was in San José, Costa Rica, for a WIPO workshop on the Marrakesh Treaty and the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC), on 13-15...
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IPA and WIPO launch annual statistical survey into the global publishing industry

The IPA and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have fired the starting gun on an unprecedented world publishing survey, which will deliver...

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Above, WIPO DG Francis Gurry meets WBU delegation during Assemblies 2016.© WIPO
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WIPO General Assemblies 2016 — stocktaking before the next big copyright sit-down

The Geneva-based World Intellectual Property (WIPO) has now closed its 56th Assemblies of the Member States, which took an interim look at various areas of...
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WIPO Diary, Day 5: standing on the heads of giants?

The morning began with an alarming rumour circulating that today’s session might spill over into a dreaded 'late-nighter'. Was this the curse of Friday 13th?...
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WIPO Diary, Day 4: crossed swords over cross-border uses

Two hot potatoes in particular injected extra vim into the SCCR discussion today, drawing parties on either side of the copyright fence into an exchange...
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WIPO Diary, Day 3: taking exception to exceptions

A collective sigh of relief was heaved here at WIPO this morning when, at last, the broadcasting talk wrapped up....
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WIPO Diary, Day 2: When legal instruments go bad.

As the SCCR delegates resumed their Sisyphean effort to define the terms underpinning the long-awaited WIPO broadcast treaty this morning, the glaring paradox at the...
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WIPO Diary, Day 1: DG ticks off SCCR 32 over 20-year broadcasting text deadlock

WIPO Director General Francis Gurry fired the starting gun on the 32nd Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), today, urging the participants to...
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