IPA December newsletter

Dear IPA friends and colleagues, The IPA had an extraordinary year in 2021 engaging with the key issues that concern publishers worldwide. 

IPA NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2021 View this email in your browser Dear IPA friends and colleagues The IPA had an extraordinary year in 2021 engaging with the key issues that concern publishers worldwide. 2021 was a second year of the COVID pandemic, of cancellations and hybrid meetings, and tentative progress towards normality. It was a year when writers, publishers and Freedom to Publish itself were under attack around the world, from Guatemala to Lebanon, from Belarus to Vietnam. It was a year in which some again attempted to undermine our industry by pretending that copyright had somehow impeded education and science, when in fact the opposite was true. I am proud to say that the IPA stood fast against these disruptions, attacks and untruths I want to thank all our members for their steadfast support throughout this difficult year and the immense amount of work undertaken this year by our new President, Bodour Al Qasimi, and Vice President, Karine Pansa, ably reinforced by our Treasurer, Thomas Heilmann.  We look forward to reaching a number of milestones in 2022. Next year will see the final year of grants from the remarkably successful Africa Publishing Innovation Fund (APIF). The InSPIRe plan will take shape over 2022, and we also plan to launch the IPA Academy website. Our 126th year of existence will culminate with the 33rd IPA International Publishers Congress in Jakarta. Please save the dates for 10-12 November and join us for three days of intense discussion about publishing's place in the world and a wide-ranging exploration of new ideas. More details about the program will be revealed soon. The IPA office will close on 24 December and re-open on 4 January and I wish all our readers a happy, healthy and maybe even festive end to the year.  And may 2022 be kinder to us all. Best wishes José Borghino Secretary General New Zealand National Library Reconsiders Internet Archive Donation Following concerns raised by local and international publishers, including on liability for copyright infringement, the New Zealand National Library has announced that it is reconsidering the agreement to donate its international collection to the Internet Archive for digitization and making available of digitised copies online. Read more. IPA condemns 9 year sentence of Vietnamese author and publisher Pham Doan Trang On Tuesday 14 December, the Washington Post reported that Vietnamese publisher, author and journalist Pham Doan Trang has been sentenced by the Hanoi People's Court to 9 years in prison for disseminating anti-state propaganda.  Read more. Like Follow Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe AAP files suit against State of Maryland  On Thursday 9 December, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), filed suit against the Maryland Attorney General seeking to overturn an unconstitutional Maryland law that conflicts with the federal Copyright Act by forcing publishers to make their literary works available to Maryland public libraries in electronic book and audiobook formats according to timing, pricing, and other terms mandated by the state under threat of penalty. Read more. and IPA Press release in support of AAP IPA Secretary General addressed educational publishers in the Philippines On 7 December, IPA Secretary General, José Borghino was invited by the IPA's member the Philippine Educational Publishers Association (PEPA) and the Philippine Book Development Federation (Philbook) to address a virtual forum in Manila. Read more. IPA Blog: Partnerships to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals The SDG Publishers Compact, launched by the International Publishers Association and the United Nations back in 2020, has continued to gather momentum for the wider publishing sector. In practice, the compact requires aligning our daily practices, our content, and measures of success to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One sector accelerating progress has been academic publishing. Read more. IPA at 125 On 15 June 1896, the first International Publishers Congress was held in Paris. The International Publishers Congress would later become the International Publishers Association and in June 2021 we marked our 125th anniversary. You can find our special anniversary logo, biographies of past Presidents, a timeline of IPA, podcasts and a beautiful mini-documentary talking to many IPA Past-Presidents as well as a centenary book on our anniversary website: www.ipa125.org IPA in the news IPA's reaction to the 9 year sentence Pham Doan Trang was covered by BBC Vietnam, Publishing Perspectives, Livres Hebdo, Actualitté and Börsenblatt.   IPA President, Bodour Al Qasimi, was featured in Publishing Perspectives and local press for her recent trips to Greece and Italy as well as her speech at the World Conference on Creative Economy, held in the UAE on December 9 at Expo 2020 Dubai.   Former IPA President Richard Charkin mentioned the IPA Prix Voltaire as part of his 12 days of Christmas post for Publishing Perspectives.   IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, and past President, Hugo Setzer were both quoted as part of a Publishing Perspectives focus on the damaging copyright law in Canada.   The Chair of the IPA's Freedom to Publish Committee and Freedom to Publish Committee member Giulia Marangoni were interviewed by Indian publication FrontList about the freedom to publish.    The CCC's Velocity of Content podcast featured IPA in its round up of the year.    Publishers Weekly included photos of some of IPA's events at Guadalajara International Book Fair as part of its photo highlights and Mexican journalist and Univision new anchor, Jorge Ramos, published an opinion piece around his trip to Guadalajara. In Case You Missed It We have started trialling biannual newsletters in Arabic, French, and Spanish in addition to our regular monthly English newsletter. Our second edition will be out this week so sign up for the language edition of your choice by updating your language preferences: https://international-publishers-association.mailchimpsites.com/manage/preferences?u=914a89e2e13ccd381d1c47e5d&id=fc11f8b022&e=d44a4dc75d&c=1a647bad1f Copyright WIPO - Report on Voluntary Copyright Registration Systems WIPO - WIPO Launches New Global Awards Program; Small and Medium Enterprises Are First Category   To Come January 26 January - 6 February: Cairo Book Fair March 21-24 March: BB Plus and Bologna Children's Book Fair April 5-7 Aprli: London Book Fair 21 - 24 April: Festival du Livre, Paris October 19-23 October: Frankfurter Buchmesse November 2-13 November: Sharjah International Book Fair 10-12 November: IPA International Publishers Congress in Jakarta 26 November - 4 December: Guadalajara International Book Fair See our full book fair listing on our site here. About the IPA Established in 1896, the International Publishers Association (IPA) is the world's largest federation of publishers associations. The IPA is an industry body with a human rights mandate, whose mission is to promote and protect publishing and raise awareness of publishing as a force for economic, cultural and social development. Working in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and other supranational bodies, the IPA champions the interests of book and journal publishing at national and supranational level. Internationally, the IPA actively opposes censorship and promotes copyright, freedom to publish (including through the IPA Prix Voltaire), and literacy. CONTACT US: International Publishers Association 23 Avenue de France CH-1202 Geneva Tel: +41 22 704 1820 www.internationalpublishers.org

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