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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 on 15 October accepted new members from the following countries: Bangladesh, China, Greece, Jordan and Peru. It also voted to give Full Member status to the associations from the following countries: Saudi Arabia, Slovenia and Tunisia.

IPA commits to work with WIPO on practical solutions

Newly appointed Secretary General of the International Publishers Association, José Borghino, committed the IPA to continue to ‘work closely and constructively with the World Intellectual Property Organisation and its Member States to find suitable and practical solutions to the issues on its agenda.’

A strong voice in support of copyright

The International Publishers Association (IPA) endorses a new book about the importance of copyright in a world where the Pirate Party and rich Internet giants seek to undermine and bypass it.

IPA calls on Turkish government to stop the violence

The International Publishers Association (IPA) is concerned at recent reports of politically motivated violence in different parts of Turkey. Newspaper offices in Istanbul have been vandalised and a bookshop in Kırşehir burnt to the ground, while journalists and booksellers were threatened and injured.

Appointment of José Borghino as new Secretary General

The IPA appointed José Borghino as new Secretary General. Mr Borghino’s responsibilities will include supporting IPA members, nationally and in international forums, whenever copyright or the freedom to publish are threatened. He will advise IPA members on national policy issues. And he will manage relationships with key international organisations, such as WIPO, UNESCO, WTO and OECD, as well as leading NGOs such as IFLA, PEN, IAF, STM, IPACC, IFRRO and other international rightsholder organisations.

IPA: Publishers strengthen indigenous values and identities

An international treaty on protecting folklore would be complex, unnecessary, damaging

IPA Secretary General Jens Bammel has warned of the dangers of introducing a new international treaty on traditional knowledge and folklore, saying it runs contrary to publishing realities and society’s best interests.