Copibec v Université Laval Class Action: Publication of notice to members
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.
IPA secretaries general pen chapter for WIPO tome on ‘Traditional Knowledge’
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.
IPA welcomes German takedown of online pirated book vendor
German investigators have succeeded in shutting down a Tonga-based website that was illegally selling thousands of downloadable books and journals – the majority of them in German – at rock-bottom prices.
Educational publishers to showcase innovations at WIPO event organized by IPA, FEP and Bertelsmann
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.
Charles Clark Memorial Lecture 2017: Veteran copyright frenemies trade polite blows over ‘fair use’
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.
IPA bringing common sense to traditional knowledge debate at WIPO
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.
COPIBEC GETS GREEN LIGHT TO SUE UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL
The Quebec Court of Appeal has authorized a class action by the Société québécoise de gestion collective des droits de reproduction (better known as Copibec) against Université Laval on behalf of all authors and publishers from Quebec, the rest of Canada and other countries. This decision overturns the February 2016 ruling by the Honourable Justice Beaupré of the Quebec Superior Court.
Top U.S. copyright minds to debate ‘Fair Use’ at Charles Clark Memorial Lecture
Delegates at The London Book Fair will in 2017 hear two eminent copyright law specialists debate one of the most controversial areas of international copyright law – the doctrine of ‘Fair Use’.
IPA reproaches Canadian minister’s copyright comments
The IPA has added its voice to those of the Union of Quebec Writers and Writers (UNEQ), the Canadian National Association of Book Publishers (ANEL) and the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO) in response to troubling comments made by the Minister for Higher Education, Hélène David, on 9 December.
WIPO SCCR 33 — the IPA out in force for world publishing’s interests
The Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), the UN body tasked with global copyright norm-setting, met at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva for the 33rd time this month — a pivotal arena attended by a fortified IPA delegation to protect the interests of world publishing.