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 are doing significant damage to Canadian educational publishing.
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 finest intellectual property legal minds. Prof. Goldstein, who is Stanford Law School’s Lillick Professor of Law, has penned numerous tomes on U.S. and international copyright law, and authored eight other books, including three novels.
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 Property Arrangements’.
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
By IPA Legal Adviser, Carlo Scollo Lavizzari
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 reproduction rightsholders’ under a literal reading of Art. 2 of the EU Copyright Directive (2001/29). Therefore, the CJEU found that ‘publishers do suffer no harm’ as a result of the private copy and photocopy exceptions in that directive.
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 (American) Authors’ Guild Inc. and others vs Google Inc. The Court rejected each of the claims of the Authors’ Guild and other appellants (collectively, the ‘Plaintiffs’) about why the district court’s ruling (by Chin J.) was flawed.
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 and copyright protection’ at the CeMPro Seminar in Mexico City ‘Copyright in the XXI’.
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On importance of the protection of local creators and publishers
In consultation with our member in South Africa, the Publishers Association of South Africa (PASA), the IPA made a submission on 15 September to the South African government’s consultation on its proposed Copyright Amendment Bill. IPA consistently reinforces the message that local authors and local publishers are important strategic resources, and that governments should foster and encourage them whenever possible. Local creators are the lifeblood of all knowledge economies, and are all the more precious for the future of developing nations.
The essentials of image rights management
It is almost a cliché to say that we are in a visual age. Today, visual images are increasingly important and visual competency is becoming essential. IPA interviewed Chris Hudson, the publisher at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and the chairman of the International Association of Museum Publishers, about image rights and their management in publishing.
Image on the front page: Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4″ (73.7 x 92.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, 1941.
Angela Mills Wade on advocating for creative industries
“Copyright has been the bedrock of huge expansion of the creative industries which have taken advantage of technology, new platforms and devices, delivering wider choice to consumers of digital music, newspapers, film, TV and books than ever imaginable even ten years ago.”