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

Opinion

Hugo Setzer

Publishers are 100% behind the Marrakesh Treaty, IPA VP reminds Costa Rican meeting

June 19, 2017

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...

Accessibility, Copyright, Marrakesh, WIPO

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IPA Editor

IPA and WIPO launch annual statistical survey into the global publishing industry

April 10, 2017

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

Data and Statistics, News, Press Releases, WIPO

Opinion

Ben Steward

WIPO General Assemblies 2016 — stocktaking before the next big copyright sit-down

October 12, 2016

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...

WIPO

Opinion

Ben Steward

WIPO Diary, Day 5: standing on the heads of giants?

May 13, 2016

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?...

SCCR, WIPO

Opinion

Ben Steward

WIPO Diary, Day 4: crossed swords over cross-border uses

May 12, 2016

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...

SCCR 32, WIPO

Opinion

Ben Steward

WIPO Diary, Day 3: taking exception to exceptions

May 11, 2016

A collective sigh of relief was heaved here at WIPO this morning when, at last, the broadcasting talk wrapped up....

SCCR 32, WIPO

Opinion

Ben Steward

WIPO Diary, Day 2: When legal instruments go bad.

May 10, 2016

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...

SCCR 32, WIPO

Opinion

Ben Steward

WIPO Diary, Day 1: DG ticks off SCCR 32 over 20-year broadcasting text deadlock

May 9, 2016

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...

SCCR, SCCR 32, WIPO

Opinion

Ben Steward

IPA WIPO Diary

May 2, 2016

This week, the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) will meet for the 32nd time, in Geneva, to debate several copyright issues...

SCCR 32, WIPO

WIPO

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