On Tuesday 27 June 2023, IPA’s Copyright Committee held a webinar on enforcement featuring the experiences of the publishers’ associations in the UK and France with Z-Library.
On Tuesday 27 June 2023, IPA’s Copyright Committee held a webinar on enforcement featuring the experiences of the publishers’ associations in the UK and France with Z-Library.
As censorship threats continue to target libraries, schools, publishers, authors, and booksellers in the USA, the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) are calling on all members of the book community to affirm their commitment to the Freedom to Read Statement on its 70th anniversary. They are joined by the Authors Guild and American Booksellers Association as well as numerous other signatories.
On 1 June, WIPO announced the 25 finalists for the 2023 edition of its annual WIPO Global Awards, One of the finalists was Indonesian creators platfrom KaryaKarsa. IPA spoke to KaryaKarsa's founder Ario Tamat.
On 1 July, Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian author and war crimes documentarist, succumbed to wounds suffered during the bombing of Kramatorsk on Tuesday 27 June.
Michiel Kolman, Chair of the IPA's Inclusive Publishing and Literacy Committee spoke to Dan Conway, CEO of the Publishers Association (UK) about their Inclusivity Action Plan and their past work on diversity and inclusion.
I write this post while returning home from a board meeting of the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) and the celebration of the Marrakesh Treaty’s 10th anniversary at the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, in Geneva.