SCCR 43 Blog Day 5 : Where do we go from here?

WIPO-SCCR43-Day5pm

The chair opened the last day of SCCR43 noting the sense of excitement in the room and the ‘spicy’ discussions around exceptions and limitations. 

Continue reading
  1188 Hits

SCCR 43 Blog Day 3 : The Subplot

SCCR43-Wednesday-side-event

Day 3 of the SCCR was dedicated to the discussion around exceptions and limitations focusing mainly on the preservation toolkit.

Continue reading
  1082 Hits

SCCR 43 Blog Day 1 : This must be the place

IPA-at-SCCR43-Day-_20230313-173508_1

Hot on the heels of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, a different kind of gathering for IPA - the 43rd sitting of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO’s) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) in a fine, but cloudy, Geneva. 

Continue reading
  1232 Hits

SCCR 42 Blog Day 5 : The best of the rest

SCCR-sunset

The final day of this SCCR began with the Chair recognising a cloud of fatigue in the room and encouraging delegates to press on through the day to finish the week.

Continue reading
  6459 Hits

SCCR 42 Blog Day 4 : Where’s the limit?

Pranav-Gupta-and-Uchenna-Cyril-Anioke-at-SCCR4_20220512-164733_1

Day 4 of this 42nd meeting of the SCCR picked up exactly where Day 3 left off, with discussions on exceptions and limitations and observer organisations continuing their statements.

Continue reading
  2265 Hits

SCCR 42 Blog Day 3: And so the exceptions discussion begins

IPA-Delegation-SCCR42

Day 3 of SCCR 42 opened with further discussion and analysis of the new text on the broadcasting treaty with the afternoon reserved for discussions on exceptions and limitations.

Continue reading
  2516 Hits

SCCR 42 Blog Day 2 : Broadcasting treaty continues…

IPA-SCCR-Delegation-Prep

Following the eventful first day of SCCR 42, day 2 saw a slightly emptier conference hall pick up the SCCR 42 agenda. The broadcasting treaty was the agenda item of the day. Delegates seemed impatient to move on to this discussion after two years of delay and with a new text in front of them. 

Continue reading
  2161 Hits

SCCR 42 Blog Day 1 : We’re back !

SCCR-photo

A blue sky welcomed back delegates to Geneva for the first face to face WIPO SCCR since 2019. An information session on the impact of COVID on the copyright ecosystem, election of a new officers and approval of observers were the headline discussion points for the day but the Russian invasion of Ukraine cast a shadow over the morning’s proceedings. 

Continue reading
  2440 Hits

WIPO SCCR 40 Day 4: Wrapping Up

WIPO-SCCR-screenshot

The hybrid 40th SCCR maintained the traditional schedule of a normal meeting and so reserved the last session for a quick review of the subjects which are vying for a position on the formal SCCR policy agenda: a miscellany it gathers together as ‘Other Matters’.

Those subjects are 

  • Copyright in the digital environment.
  • Resale Right
  • Rights of theatre directors
  • Proposal for a study on public lending right

The proposal for a study on public lending right was on this list for the first time following the request by the delegation of Sierra Leone at SCCR 39 (and since supported by Panama and Malawi). 

The update presentations and reactions from delegates and observers was efficient and eerie, both. In full measure.

And with that, Mr Abdoul Aziz Dieng of Sénégal, thanked all of the participants, the Chair’s summary was read out, and the meeting closed. 

Continue reading
  8769 Hits

Discussions on copyright exceptionally limited

50597635588_dfdbd92215_c

Day 3 of the hybrid SCCR 40 saw the Exceptions and Limitations discussions take centre stage. Given the decision of Member States to limit interactions at this meeting to stock-taking, the main focus was on the 130-page report issued by WIPO following the three Regional Seminars held in 2019 in SingaporeNairobi and Santo Domingo and the subsequent international conference held in Geneva last October. The IPA participated in all these events, gathering together local publishers and coordinating closely with representatives of other stakeholders, including authors and CMOs.  

Continue reading
  5523 Hits

WIPO diary SCCR 40 (days 1 & 2): SCCR 40 — A sight for square eyes

Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.

This first meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of 2020 is an almost 100% virtual affair, save for a handful of people in the plenary chamber in Geneva, with a dramatically reduced programme of a couple of hours per day, and with a promise of no normative (or law-making) discussions on any of the agenda items. 

Continue reading
  4053 Hits

WIPO diary SCCR39 (day 5): SCCR 39 Diplomatic offline, ugly online

WIPO-sccr-39-closed

SCCR 39 concluded this evening with an agreement found on how to keep the Exceptions and Limitations discussion moving forward and the other agenda items wrapped up and a possible new issue raised in the chamber.

Continue reading
  8990 Hits

WIPO Diary SCCR39 (Day 4) – Are we still talking TV?

IMG_9522

The second day of discussions on the broadcasting treaty were mainly conducted behind closed doors with the plenary chamber finally filling at 17:40 for a presentation of conclusions.

Continue reading
  5983 Hits

WIPO Diary (SCCR 38) Day 5: The Final Hurrah

SCCR38-ABC-Charter-Gvantsa-Jobava-Monica-Halil-Hugo-Setzer-crop

Friday at SCCR 38 was for “other matters” – copyright in the digital environment, resale right and theatre directors. 

Continue reading
  10042 Hits

WIPO Diary (SCCR 38) Day 4: Typologies galore

SCCR38-Day4-side-event

Following Wednesday’s jam-packed day of presentations and side-events, you could feel a drop in energy in the chamber today as a number of reports were presented.

Continue reading
  6679 Hits

WIPO Diary (SCCR 38) Day 3 – Exceptions, exceptions, exceptions (and limitations)

IPA-Delegation-SCCR38

Wednesday morning, before the start of the WIPO plenary session, IPA had two important meetings. Firstly, we were invited to take part in a regular briefing that the US delegation offers particular stakeholders at every SCCR. Secondly, IPA then met with the Asia-Pacific Group which includes Members States from a huge swathe of territory from the Middle East to islands in the Pacific. In a friendly meeting, we asked if there were reviews of copyright on the horizon among their members. We discussed the upcoming WIPO regional conferences (the first of which, will be at the end of April, in Singapore) as well as various other events and projects within their borders. These types of meetings are very important to ascertain current positions and plumb possible future shifts.

Continue reading
  8046 Hits

WIPO Diary (SCCR38) Day 2: An informal day in the chamber but buzzing around it

The second day of the 38th session of the WIPO SCCR, began with the regular meeting the IPA organizes on Tuesday morning for the representatives of the Creative Sector Organisations Group that we coordinate. On the 13th floor of the WIPO building with sweeping views up Lake Geneva towards Lausanne, we convened a meeting that included representatives of the music, film and collective management sectors as well as publishing. The purpose of the meeting is to brief those who had missed the first day’s action and to plan what we will do for the rest of the week.

Continue reading
  8211 Hits

WIPO Diary (SCCR 38) Day 1: Copyright and Sport

Jose-Borghino-Hugo-Setzer-SCCR38-WIPO

Yesterday was the first day of the 38th session of the WIPO SCCR. If you need to re-familiarise yourself with what has happened previously and some of the WIPO lingo here are links to previous diaries, our jargon buster and the official SCCR page.

Continue reading
  6715 Hits

SCCR 38 - looking ahead

Today, we begin the week-long, 38thsession of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). For those of you new to these conferences, we direct you to our summary of where we ended up last time (in November 2018).  

Continue reading
  5050 Hits

WIPO Diary (SCCR 37) Day 5: The End of the Affair

wipo-diary-sccr-37-day-5

IPA’s President-elect, Hugo Setzer, virtually opened the last day of SCCR 37 in a video prepared by the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC). Hugo spoke eloquently (in Spanish, with English subtitles) about accessibility issues as they affect his native Mexico as well as the global context.

Continue reading
  4710 Hits

International Publishers Association

23, avenue de France
1202 Geneva, Switzerland
+41 22 704 18 20
info@internationalpublishers.org

Subscribe to our newsletter