Berne Convention For The Protection Of Literary And Artistic Works first signed by Belgium, France, Germany, Haiti, Italy, Liberia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, and the United Kingdom.
Net price principle, where publishers offer booksllers a discount as long as books are sold at no less than a price fixed by the publisher, adopted in Germany.
Creation of United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property in Bern (BRPI) with a staff complement of 7.
PEN International founded in London.
In the UK, Allen, John and Richard Lane found Penguin Books with the intention of making cheap paperbacks available.
UNESCO Florence Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials approved.
International Publishers Congress renamed as International Publishers Association.
Penguin Books is unsuccessfully prosecuted under the UK’s Obscene Publications Act 1959 for the publication of D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) founded Adoption of Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations administered jointly by WIPO, International Labour Organization (ILO), and UNESCO.
Berne Convention Stockholm Conference, revision of the Berne Convention, Brussels Text, to be completed in 1971 at Paris.
United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property becomes the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) based in Geneva.
The first edition of the Specialist Publishers’ Exhibition for Librarians is held in London, becoming The London Book Fair in 1977. Berne Convention, Paris Text adopted: the current version of the Convention, with the Berne Annex, valid for some countries until adoption of the WTO TRIPS Agreement in 1994 and for some countries still today.
Grupo Ibero-Americano de Editores (GIE) founded.
First edition of the Salon du Livre de Paris (renamed Livre Paris in 2016).
First edition of Guadalajara International Book Fair, Article 19 founded in London.
Norwegian publisher William Nygaard shot 3 times outside his home for publishing Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Rio de Janeiro results in a multilateral treaty.
‘3rd IPA Copyright Symposium, Turin, STM Association established in the Hague.
IPA launches Freedom to Publish Prize, later renamed the Prix Voltaire.
6th IPA Copyright Symposium, Montreal, Shalah Lahiji (IR) awarded Prix Voltaire.
Sihem Bensedrine (TN) awarded Prix Voltaire. IPA creates Educational Publishers Forum.
Jonathan “Zapiro” Shapiro (ZA) awarded Prix Voltaire. EPF launches ‘What Works?’ conference at London Book Fair.
IPA Vice Presidents: Ibrahim el Moallem (EG), Richard Charkin (UK).
Raif Badawi (SA) awarded Prix Voltaire. Revised IPA Statutes create new independent Copyright, Freedom to Publish, and Membership Committees.
Gui Minhai (SE/CN) awarded Prix Voltaire, Faisal Arefin Dipan and Liu Xiaobo awarded posthumous Prix Voltaire Special Awards. 1st IPA Regional Seminar, Lagos.
Liberal Publishing House (VN) awarded Prix Voltaire. IPA holds first ever online General Assembly with great success.
