| |  | Judge Approves 1.5bn$ AI Copyright Settlement Judge Alsup, of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, granted preliminary approval of the parties' proposed settlement of certain infringement claims in Bartz v. Anthropic, an agreement that requires Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion dollars to the authors and publishers of nearly half a million books it downloaded from notorious pirate sites to feed AI models. Read more. | |  | Brazilian Publishers Stand Firm on AI On 2 September 2025, the president of Brazilian publishers' association (SNEL), Dante Cid, spoke to the Chamber of Deputies at a Special Commission on Artificial Intelligence to discuss a current proposal (PL 2338/23). Read more. | |  | AI Updates from Australia and Denmark IPA and our Australian member, the APA, responded to the Government of Australia's Productivity Commission consultation which covered draft proposals concerning AI exceptions to the Copyright Act. In Denmark, the Minister of Culture's Expert Group on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence submitted ten recommendations to the Minister. Read more. | | |  | | Fifth Digital Appeal to Free Gui Minhai This year marks ten years since Swedish publisher Gui Minhai was imprisoned in China. Join us in standing up for him — and for imprisoned publishers around the world — by taking part in the Swedish Publishers' Association's digital manifestation on 17 October. Read more. | |  | | Trump Attack on PRH Thrown out by Court 15 billion dollar defamation suit against Penguin Random House dismissed by Florida Judge as 'improper and impermissable'. The case concerned the 2024 book "Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success." Read more. | |  | | IPA backs joint statement on proposed changes to US visas for foreign journalists Statement, signed by over 100 leading broadcast, print and digital media, news organizations and journalists' organizations around the world, calls on the United States Government to withdraw its recent proposal to change the I visa programme for foreign journalists. Read more. | | | | | IPA President at Book 2.0 IPA President, Gvantsa Jobava, delivered a speech at the beginning of the first day of Book 2.0, organised by IPA's Portuguese member APEL. Read more. | | | IPA Vice President speaks at Pen International Congress On 5 September, IPA Vice President, Giovanni Hoepli, joined a session on The Freedom to Publish: Resistance, Risk, and Radical Imagination. Read more. | | | IPA President speaks at Yerevan, Armenia On 7 September, IPA President Gvantsa Jobava took part in two panel discussions held within the framework of the festival. Read more. | | | IPA Secretary General at the International ISBN Agency's 2025 Annual General Meeting. On 16 and 17 September, IPA Secretary General José Borghino participated in the International ISBN Agency's 2025 AGM in São Paulo, Brazil. Read more. | | | IPA President Speaks at Babelica on Resisting Authoritarianism On 25 September, IPA President Gvantsa Jobava, joined a panel at the virtual conference, Babelica, organised by the International Alliance of Independent Publishers. Read more. | | | MABOPA Signs Partnerships for 35th International Publishers Congress 2026 On September 18, 2025 the Malaysian Book Publishers Association further strengthened preparations for the 35th International Publishers Congress (IPC) 2026 with two significant academic partnerships. Read more. | | | EDItEUR: Metadata and the EU Deforestation Regulation In this latest post, EDItEUR's Graham Bell reports on recent ONIX updates that relate to the EU Deforestation Regulation. Read more. | | | Ingunn Trosholmen appointed new Managing Director of World Expression Forum Ingunn Trosholmen will assume the role of Managing Director from January 1, 2026. She joins WEXFO from her current position as State Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister of Norway. Read more. | | | Nominations are open for the 2026 BOP – Bologna Prize for Best Children's Publishers of the Year In its 14th edition, the award highlights the top children's publishers of the year in each of the six geographical areas: Africa, Asia, Europe, Caribbean - Central and Latin America, North America, Oceania. Read more. | | | Reading as a driver of an economic growth Luis González Martín: Two weeks ago, the Associazione Italiana Editori (AIE) published data from a survey conducted by Pepe Research on reading and cultural consumption in Italy. Once again, significant differences are observed between the south and the north-central regions of the country: 58% of the population over 15 years of age in the southern regions reads printed books, compared to 73% in north-central Italy. Read more. | | | The Readers March at the Utrecht Literature Festival, which IPA partnered, received broad coverage in the Netherlands.
IPA's participation at Book 2.0 was covered in Publishing Perspectives. The same publication also mentioned IPA in its coverage of the release of British-Egyptian author Alaa Abd El-Fattah. | | | October 15 - 19 October: Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany
See our full book fair listing on our site here. | | | | |
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