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Dismay as US Supreme Court snubs Google Books appeal

The IPA was dismayed this month when the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) declined to consider the appeal in Authors Guild v. Google...

IPA keeps up Lat-Am momentum with top level engagements in Argentina and Colombia

The IPA has been building on the solid foundations recently laid in the Association's relationship with Latin American publishing, with prominent...

Highlights of the 31st International Publishers Congress 2016, in London

The 31st International Publishers Congress, 9 -12 April, 2016, gathered more than 220 delegates from 41 countries in London's majestic Olympia Conference Centre. This was...

IPA General Assembly adopts key amendments to enhance the processes underpinning the IPA’s work

The International Publishers Association (IPA), the world’s largest federation of publishers associations, held an Extraordinary General Assembly in London today (11 April, 2016) where IPA...

IPA awards first ever IPA Prix Voltaire to jailed Saudi writer and free speech activist, Raif Badawi

The International Publishers Association (IPA), the world’s largest federation of publishing associations, has named the jailed creator of a secularist Saudi website, Raif Badawi, the...

Feature interview: Ensaf Haidar, wife of IPA Prix Voltaire winner, Raif Badawi

On Sunday, the IPA named jailed Saudi writer and free speech activist, Raif Badawi, the winner of the first IPA Prix Voltaire, formerly the IPA...

Freedom to Publish Prize finalist profile: Raif Badawi

Saudi Arabian writer, blogger and free speech activist, Raif Badawi, is currently four years into an extremely severe penal sentence that includes a 10-year jail...

Freedom to Publish Prize finalist profile: Moe Way

Burmese poet and writer Moe Way, who co-founded Myanmar's The Eras publishing house to give voice to many of his country's unheard poets and writers,...

Freedom to Publish Prize finalist profile: Bei Ling

Chinese publisher, poet and essayist, Bei Ling, who in 1993 founded Tendency, an exile literary journal published in Chinese until 2000, is one of five...

Freedom to Publish Prize finalist profile: Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury

Bangladeshi publisher Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury, who was nearly killed by Islamist extremists in October 2015, is among the five finalists for the 2016...

IPA joins push for rethink of copyright exceptions and slashing of royalties in Canada

The IPA has thrown its weight behind a growing chorus calling for the Canadian Government to urgently reconsider changes to the country's copyright laws that...

IPA country report: Bangladesh

In October 2015 the IPA General Assembly voted to grant the Academic and Creative Publishers Association of Bangladesh (ACPAB) IPA membership. It was a move...

Fair’s fair – or is it? Paul Goldstein on the rise and rise of fair use exceptions

Few people are better qualified to opine on the evolution of copyright than Paul Goldstein, widely held to be one of America's...

International publishers name five front-runners for 2016 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize

The International Publishers Association's Freedom to Publish Committee has named its top five nominees for the 2016 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize. The eventual winner...

IPA World Book Fair Report 2016

Book fairs continue to be an essential driver of the publishing business. In an age of video conferencing and digital networking, book fairs are a...

IPA joins Ibero-American publishers at unprecedented Havana meeting

The IPA has been making further inroads into Latin America after Secretary General José Borghino joined the first ever meeting in Havana, Cuba, of IPA...

Egypt: gagging authors signals worrying backslide to pre-Arab-Spring authoritarianism

This week's jailing of Egyptian author Ahmed Naji over a book deemed too explicit is further proof that Egypt is squandering the gains of the...

IPA co-signs letter demanding action on the five detained Hong Kong booksellers

The International Publishers Association (IPA) and seven other world free expression and publishing organizations have co-signed a letter to the Hong Kong Government to urge...

IPA calls for the immediate release of arrested Bangladeshi publisher

The International Publishers Association today called for the immediate release and protection of a 73-year-old publisher arrested in Dhaka Monday on the grounds that he...

IPA president tells Bangladesh International Book Fair publishing prospers when freedom reigns

International Publishers Association president Richard Charkin opened the annual, month-long Bangladesh International Book Fair, in Dhaka, this week, stressing that publishing makes its most valuable...

International Publishers Congress 2018 to be held in India

The International Publishers Association (IPA) has announced that its 2018 International Publishers Congress will be hosted by Indian member, the Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP),...

IPA pays tribute to the late Paul Aiken, former executive director of the Authors Guild

 The International Publishers Association today paid tribute to Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, who died last Friday, aged 56.

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The IPA’s first Director of Communications and Freedom to Publish

The International Publishers Association (IPA) has named Ben Steward as its first Director, Communications and Freedom to Publish, in a move designed to boost awareness...

The cultural and educational ideals behind Bologna Children’s Book Fair

Bologna Children’s Book Fair appears in the IPA survey on international book fairs as one of three most visited book fairs. We spoke to Mr...

Richard Charkin at Mid-Term

Interviewed recently by Benedicte Page for The Bookseller, Richard Charkin talks about the challenges and achievements of his first 12 months as IPA president.
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New frontiers

from The Bookseller by Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi. I have always believed in the positive impact that dialogue has on narrowing divides and bringing about...

IPA Seriously Concerned about Missing Hong Kong Publishers

The International Publishers Association (IPA) has joined the Swedish Publishers Association (SPA) and the Publishers Association (PA) UK in expressing deep concern about the whereabouts...

IPA Slams Vatican for Attempting to Silence Critics

The International Publishers Association (IPA) has joined the Italian Publishers Association (AIE) and European journalism and freedom-of-speech watchdogs to condemn the Vatican for attempting to...

IPA Submission on copyright reform to the Australian Productivity Commission

In support of our member, the Australian Publishers Association (APA), the IPA recently made an extensive submission to the Australian government’s inquiry into ‘Australia’s Intellectual...

WIPO debates copyright exceptions for education, libraries and archives, as well as a new international broadcasting treaty

Read the report on the 31st meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) held on 7-11 2015 December in Geneva
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IPA criticises yet another example of Turkish government censorship

International Publishers Association (IPA) has joined the Turkish Publishers Assocaition (TPA) in criticizing yet another example of blatant political censorship in Turkey....

IPA to initiate a new Education Publishers Forum in the Americas

At a recent meeting of education publishers at the Guadalajara International Book Fair, Mexico, it was agreed that the IPA should create an Education Publishers...

Consumption Tax (JCT) rates going up in Japan

After 1 April 2017 (not an April Fools’ joke), the overall Japanese Consumption Tax rate in will rise to 10%. The plan is to maintain...

IPA stresses the importance of licensing solutions at WIPO

International Publishers Association (IPA) today endorsed licensing as the best way to safeguard copies of works in libraries and archives during the debate at the...

IPA celebrates publishers’ innovation at WIPO

International Publishers Association (IPA) Secretary General, José Borghino spoke today about the great innovations being delivered by publishers, especially in the education sector.
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The HP Judgement: The International Implications of Reading Literally

According to the European Court of Justice (CJEU), as part of a ruling on Belgian statutory levies published on 12 November 2015 ‘publishers are not...

Google’s making of a digital copy to provide a search function is a ‘transformative use’ of the content, Judge Leval said

Judge Leval, sitting in the US Court of Appeal for the 2nd Circuit, on 16 October delivered his long-awaited opinion in the matter of the...

IPA concerned about yet another takeover of a Turkish publisher

The International Publishers Association (IPA) is very concerned about reports of another Turkish publisher being put in the hands of trustees.

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CHINA: SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF FOUR HONG KONG-BASED PUBLISHERS

The International Publishers Association and PEN International are alarmed at reports that four people associated with a publisher and bookstore in Hong Kong famous for...

The publisher perspective on the development of new technologies and copyright protection.

On 9 November 2015, Secretary General of the IPA, José Borghino, chaired a panel discussion about 'The publisher perspective on the development of new technologies...

“Engagement gives us a chance to support our colleagues whereas non-engagement brings nothing.”

Richard Charkin, IPA President spoke today at the opening of the 3rd Arab Publishers Conference in Sharjah, UAE. You can find here below the integrality...

IPA Demands Protection for Publishers in Bangladesh

The murderous attacks on Bangladeshi publishers and writers over the weekend are direct attacks on the freedom to publish — a fundamental freedom in all...

IPA condemns Turkish Government’s attacks on independent media.

The International Publishers Association is alarmed at reports that the Turkish Government is shutting down and seizing the independent and critical media outlets of the...

The 2015 IPA Educational Publishers Forum open meeting

The 2015 IPA Educational Publishers Forum open meeting in Frankfurt was chaired by Jay Diskey, Chair of this working committee and was held on 16...

The International Publishers Association calls for nominations for the 2016 Freedom to Publish Prize.

'Freedom to Publish and copyright are the twin pillars upon which the IPA stands. Our Freedom to Publish Prize is unique in being the only...

International Publishers’ Association (IPA) holds successful 2015 General Assembly meeting during Frankfurt Book Fair.

New members and a reinvigorated Executive Committee give the IPA a rare impetus going into 2016.
The IPA General Assembly at the Frankfurt Book Fair...