This year’s Asian Festival of Children’s Content took place late May online under the banner LitUp! One important session explored how publishers who have signed the SDG Publishers Compact are helping to promote the SDGs through their business activity and through their publishing lists. Session moderator and international publishing consultant, Emma House, shares her report on the session.
Final preparations for the 33rd International Publishers Congress are underway with tickets and accommodation packages to be released in June.
On 31 May, Previous IPA President, Hugo Setzer, spoke at a hybrid conference organized by the Coalition for the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in Ottawa, Canada. Entitled ‘The Future of Copyright in Canada’ the conference focused on the ongoing fall out from the 2012 amendments to the Canadian Copyright Act.
IPA’s Secretary General moderated a panel on the ‘Metaverse’ and the future of publishing at a festival in Singapore.
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.
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.
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.
