Ahead of the third and final WIPO Regional Seminar in Santo Domingo (following on from Singapore and Nairobi), we interviewed Manuel Sarmiento, Secretary General of the Camara Colombiana del Libro about educational publishing in Latin America.
On 3 June the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) tabled its report following the statutory review of the 2012 Copyright Act. The report follows the Heritage Committee's Shifting Paradigms report, which was welcomed by IPA and Canadian publishers’ associations in May.
At the end of June 2019, IPA’s USA member, the Association of American Publishers, filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as part of the Commission’s hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.
June 17-18, IPA President, Hugo Setzer and Secretary General, José Borghino, visited Berlin to have high level meetings with the Federation of European Publishers and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels.
On 15 May the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage tabled the report Shifting Paradigms which recommends clear actions to fix the problems created by the Copyright Act revision of 2012.
At the end of April, IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, led a strong team of publishers from the Asia-Pacific region at the first World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) regional seminar in Singapore.
The International Publishers Association (IPA) confirms Dr Jessica Sänger, Director for European and International Affairs at Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (the German Publishers and Booksellers Association) as the new Chair of the IPA’s Copyright Committee, taking over from the Publishers Association’s William Bowes who has stepped down.
From the man who has been described as “the father of African publishing” to the young winner of the Global Teacher Prize 2019, the roster of speakers for the IPA’s second Africa Seminar continues to grow.