The 2023 London Book Fair Mains Stage programme has been announced featuring IPA President Karine Pansa, as well as sessions dedicated to global copyright and the freedom to publish.
The controversial Copyright Amendment Bill D-Bill 2017, passed by the National Assembly on 1 September 2023, will next be tabled in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), then to the nine provinces’ parliaments and back to Parliament for finalisation before being submitted to the President for his signature.
On 26 January IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, and Chair of the IPA Copyright Committee, Jessica Sänger, both spoke at the ‘Intellectual Property Rights Conference: Protecting Creativity in the New Republic’.
On Wednesday 16 November, in federal court in Brooklyn, USA, an indictment and a complaint were unsealed charging Russian nationals Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova with criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering for operating Z-Library, an online e-book piracy website.
The International Publishers Association team was delighted to be back at Frankfurt Book Fair with a full week of meetings.
On 16 September, IPA Secretary General, José Borghino spoke via Zoom to delegates at the PEPCon5 Conference on the topic Educational Publishing's Impact on Global Student Ranking. Borghino used the OECD’s PISA rankings to postulate that governments’ textbook policies around the world were a major influence on educational outcomes for students and learners.
In September 2022, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) released statements in response to Fight for the Future’s ‘In Solidarity with Libraries’ letter falsely claiming that the lawsuit against Internet Archive’s open library harms public libraries.
Copyright was high on IPA’s and our members’ agenda this September. Our Copyright Committee meeting took place on September 13th and gathered representatives from over 40 countries across IPA’s membership. This was also the month when we launched IPA’s copyright regional meetings, with the support of our members.
