Following a successful rebrand last year, the Global Copyright Enforcement Forum returns to Frankfurt Book Fair.
...IPA will keep the spotlight on the Prix Voltaire in the coming months partnering an event at Göteborg Book Fair in September and with our...
IPA’s Vice-President, Hugo Setzer, attended the Beijing International Book Fair, on a trip where he will also travel to Seoul and Tokyo to catch up...
IPA President, Michiel Kolman, and Secretary General, José Borghino, attended the 84th World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) of the International Federation of Library Organisations...
Asoke Ghosh, The IPA’s longest serving Executive Committee member, wrote the fourth of our edited extracts from Publishers on Publishing, which was released during the...
On 27 August, IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, was invited to headline the inaugural event in a seminar series on the subject of Freedom to...
Over the summer WIPO held seminars in Peru and Malysia. IPA helped ensure publishers were present to discuss ‘Managing Copyright in the Publishing Industry in...
IPA interviewed Emmanuel Pierrat, a French lawyer specialising in freedom of expression and President of the French PEN Club about his book Codification of Freedom...
From mass campaigning in the EU to open consultations in Australia, South Africa and Thailand, as well as the ongoing review in Canada, copyright debates...
IPA learnt with great sadness of the passing of Alan Kouck, President of the Editis Group and former Vice President of IPA (2010-2012).
...Taking place from 23-29 September, banned book week is being promoted in the US and the UK.
...On 28-29 June, IPA’s Vice President, Hugo Setzer, was invited by the Publishers Association of New Zealand to deliver the opening keynote speech at their...
Since the founding of the IPA, the freedom to publish has been one of its two core pillars. The other pillar is copyright. These two...
IPA laments the murder of Shahzahan Bachchu, and the continued insecurity faced by Bangladeshi authors and publishers. We send his family and friends our sincere...
With a copyright consultation underway in Australia, and Canada going through its own copyright review process, it is interesting to see lines being drawn between...
IPA joined high-level delegations advising on copyright and education policy at the Seoul International Book Fair. Responding to a call from our member, the Korean...
The IPA is very happy to publish a second extract from the contribution by the Publishers Association’s Emma House to the book Publishers on Publishing,...
Things are heating up in the discussions on the EU Copyright Directive. Ahead of a recent committee vote in the European Parliament there were trucks...
A founding member, of the ABC board, Alicia Wise (Senior VP for Global Strategic Networks at Elsevier), stood down at the recent board meeting where...
In 2012 Canada changed its copyright law to include education as part of its fair-dealing exception to Copyright. The Copyright Act is now under review...
With a focus on the sustainable development of publishing in Africa, the IPA held its first ever African Regional Seminar in Lagos, Nigeria on 9...
With discussions over the Copyright Directive proposal hotting up in the EU, Content 4 Education has been launched.
...The 11th Istanbul Gathering took place on 26 and 27 May. Unfortunately, the current situation in Turkey made it impossible to bring the invited speakers...
Negotiations on possible future international treaties on copyright dominated the last week of May at the meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related...
The IPA is very happy to publish an extract from the contribution by IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, and Chair of the IPA’s Freedom to...
At the London Book Fair’s International Excellence Awards on 11th April, Jacks Thomas, Director of the Fair looked back at his career in publishing, which...
200 participants gathered in Lagos, Nigeria, to attend the first IPA Regional Seminar on Publishing in Africa. The seminar brought together notable publishers and others...
Publishing leaders from around the world to meet in Lagos
...The IPA’s Educational Publishers Forum (EPF) continues to strengthen its presence in Latin America.
...This year, the annual Salon du Livre de Genève (Geneva Book Fair) took place from 25-29 April. Billed as the second biggest francophone fair in...
Hot on the heels of the publication of the IPA/WIPO pilot survey of the publishing industry, the data collection process for the 2017 survey has...
On 9 May, IPA holds a Regional Seminar in Lagos, Nigeria. We interview Gbadega Adedapo, member of the IPA’s Executive Committee, President of the Nigerian...
UNESCO’s World Book and Copyright Day (23 April) marked the handover of the World Book Capital City (WBCC) from Conakry, Guinea to Athens, Greece.
...The London Book Fair saw the announcement of the Accessible Books Consortium’s 2018 International Excellence Awards with Hachette Livre, France and Daisy Forum, India picking...
With draft European Union copyright rules currently under debate, European Commission Vice President, Andrus Ansip, came to the London Book Fair to share the logic...
The IPA’s first Freedom to Publish Seminar at the London Book Fair took place on the opening day and saw a packed room listen to...
The 2018 IPA International Publishers Congress in New Delhi was a resounding success. Below you can see blog posts, articles, press releases and videos from...
Censor, advocate or disruptor? The role of Publishers in an Evolving Publishing and Media Landscape, 10th April 2018
...Sharjah makes a unique contribution to rebuild one of Conakry's most beloved libraries which was destroyed by fire in 2012.
...Taking place in Lagos, Nigeria on 9 May 2018, this IPA Regional Seminar will cover a broad range of issues, from the socio-economic contribution of...
A fascinating new report commissioned by the UK Publishers Association demonstrates the value of textbooks and education publishers.
...Ministries in both countries have recently published draft proposals looking at exceptions for text and data mining, among other things.
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