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 media as the first step towards its class action against Université Laval, in Quebec City.
Current IPA Secretary General José Borghino and his predecessor Jens Bammel have co-written a chapter for a book compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) called Protecting Traditional Knowledge.
Educational publishers from around the world showed delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today how copyright has enabled them to invest in the innovation that is shaping the future of school-age learning.
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 at the world Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in Geneva, during a key debate on educational copyright exceptions and related issues.
No one expected US judge Pierre Leval or preeminent American copyright lawyer Jon Baumgarten – respective champions of the ‘for’ and ‘against’ camps in the global US-style ‘fair use’ conversation – to give ground when they squared up this month at the 2017 Charles Clark Memorial Lecture, delivered in an experimental debate-format.
Delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva are this week deliberating the relationship between copyright and ‘traditional knowledge’, a conversation of undervalued importance to the global publishing industry.