On 22 July, AFP reported that 5 members of a speech therapists union had been arrested for sedition and had their accounts frozen after publishing a series of children’s books.
A crucial part of IPA's mission is to inform member associations and the wider global publishing community about breaking developments which will impact publishers. We do this through a number of channels. the IPA website, our monthly e-newsletter, press releases and the IPA's dedicated social media feeds.
A joint statement issued on 16 July by the Publishers Association of New Zealand and the New Zealand Society of Authors expressed both organisations’ shock at the announcement that the National Library of New Zealand would hand over hundreds of thousands of books from its collection to the notorious pirate site, the Internet Archive (IA).
The 41st session of the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place in hybrid format from 28 June to 1 July. Member States agreed not to embark on any law-making (normative) discussions while face-to-face meetings remain impractical, but that hasn’t stopped some from trying to use the pandemic as a pretext for more and broader exceptions and limitations to copyright, especially in the field of education publishing.
On July 6th, the Nigerian government announced that it had presented a new bill, The Copyright (Repeal) Bill, to the country’s National Assembly for approval. The proposed legislation, which represents the first significant reform of Nigeria’s copyright system in decades, is intended to strengthen authorities’ capacity to respond to the copyright challenges the country is facing.
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James Taylor
21 September 2021
The term of IPA Past President, Dr Michiel Kolman, on the board of the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) came to an end last month. The ABC is hosted by WIPO and is part of the practical implementation of the Marakesh Treaty. Michiel has been succeed...
Alison Tweed
13 September 2021
Our charity, Book Aid International, works for a world where everyone has access to books that will enrich, improve, and change their lives. Every year, we provide around one million brand new books to thousands of libraries, schools, universities, h...
Gvantsa Jobava
08 September 2021
Happy International Literacy Day!
Michiel Kolman
07 September 2021
It seems that with each passing day there is yet another climate change crisis dominating our news headlines. The world’s scientists have declared that we are fast approaching global tipping points where we can still try and minimize the devast...
Michiel Kolman
22 July 2021
SDG Publishers Compact hits its first 100 signatories.
Gvantsa Jobava
25 June 2021
On 16 June during Bologna Children's Book Fair, Aldus Up, the European book fairs network co-founded in the framework of the Creative Europe programme and coordinated by the Italian Publishers Association (AIE) published two studies on existing surve...
Hugo Setzer
07 June 2021
We may indeed regard the Berne Convention as one of the great charters of literary liberty; it has directly and powerfully influenced all legislation touching copyright matters which has been achieved since it came into force. John Murray, IPA ...
James Taylor
04 June 2021
The SDG Book Club was an idea formed through a unique collaboration between the IPA and the United Nations and involved the full spectrum of the book chain. The idea was simple; to use books as tool to encourage children aged between 6-12 to un...
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