IPA Newsletter May 2023

Prix Voltaire laureate and Special Award, Word Expression Forum, EU update and more!

IPA NEWSLETTER May 2023 View this email in your browser 2023 Prix Voltaire Prix Voltaire ceremony confers prize on Mazin Lateef and Special Award for Volodymyr Vakulenko Iraqi publisher Mazin Lateef Ali, abducted in January 2020, awarded the 2023 International Publishers Association's Prix Voltaire laureate at the award ceremony at the World Expression Forum in Lillehammer, Norway. The IPA also announced a Prix Voltaire Special Award for murdered Ukrainian children's book author and poet, Volodymyr Vakulenko. Read more. EU busy with AI, assessing copyright in third countries and proposals for the book sector A year ahead of European Parliament elections and another 6 months before the appointment of the new College of Commissioners, the EU institutions are wrapping up different pieces of legislation, starting with Artificial Intelligence. Read more. WEXFO 2023 – Inspiring and troubling in equal measure   The second edition of WEXFO opened under a warm, blue Lillehammer sky on 22 May. Its ambitious programme was spread across 4 days and made up of 4 different events with the addition of a parallel WEXFO Youth programme. Read more.   Like Follow Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe IPA Releases New Book on last 25 years of the association's history Authored by IPA Past President, Hugo Setzer, the new book The Fifth Quarter Century: IPA 1996-2021 details the evolutions of the book sector in general and the association in particular over the past 25 years. Read more. Educational Publishers Forum meets in Madrid The 53rd Educational Publishers Forum took place in Madrid on 2nd June with a wide-reaching programme covering national and international policy making, artificial intelligence in education and an initiative to facilitate the availability of digital resources in Spanish schools. Read more. Publishers File Amicus Brief Supporting Patrons of the Llano County Library System in Little v. Llano County On 2 June, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and 7 publishers filed an amicus brief in support of patrons of the Llano County Library System in the case of  Little v. Llano County, a suit that challenges the removal of 17 books from the shelves of public libraries. Read more. Collective, intersectional, intergenerational: the battle for environmental sustainability Can we save the planet before dinner? This question guided the meeting on environmental sustainability organised by the Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino in collaboration with the Italian Publishers' Association (AIE) was held reflecting on the themes and practices of environmental sustainability. Read more. WIPO Accessible Books Consortium International Excellence Award 2023: Call for Nominations Nominations are now open for the ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing, which recognizes a publisher and a project initiative that each demonstrate outstanding leadership and achievements in advancing the accessibility of commercial e-books or other digital publications for persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print-disabled. Read more. Blog Posts Diversity and Inclusion - A conversation with AAP's Jonathan Walker Michiel Kolman, Chair of the IPA's Inclusive Publishing and Literacy Committee, spoke to Jonathan Walker, Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Association of American Publisher (AAP) about his work. Read more. Now available for all IPA members and their members on the IPA Academy. Contact your publishers association for your access code. IPA in the news IPA's 2023 Prix Voltaire received broad coverage from around the world. Publishing Perspectives and Velocity of Content ran interviews with Victoria Amelina who received the Special Award on behalf of Volodymyr Vakulenko. Other coverage included The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly, LivresHebdo, Actualitté (France), Börsenblatt (Germany), Giornale della libreria (Italy), Publish News (Spain and Brazil), Bok 365 (Norway). Shortlisted nominee Mahr Husain (Zuka Books, Pakistan) was also interviewed about the Award by Aurora. Arabic language coverage included Sky News Arabia, There was coverage in Ukraine for the Special Award from Chytomo and Espreso among others.   The publication of Hugo Setzer's book on the last 25 years of IPA's history, was picked up in Publishing Perspectives, PublishNews.es and All About Book Publishing. Hugo Setzer is not the only past IPA President to have a book out – Richard Charkin's book has also been attracting coverage including in the Sydney Morning Herald.   Finally, IPA Secretary General, José Borghino was quoted in a Globe and Mail (Canada) article entitled Copyright loophole should be plugged. In Case You Missed It The latest editions of our Arabic, French and Spanish newsletters came out in August. Copyright AAP: AAP Statement on Supreme Court Decision in Copyright Fair Use Case Andy Warhol Foundation v. Lynn Goldsmith Copyright Alliance: Former Copyright Office GC Warns Against Blanket Assertions That AI Ingestion of Copyrighted Works 'Is Fair Use' Polity: Copyright Amendment Bill process drawn into question International Authors Forum: Copyright in the new era: Authorship and Artificial Intelligence Freedom to Publish The Bookseller (comment): Censorship Creep, Roger Tagholm  BBC: Tsitsi Dangarembga: Top Zimbabwe author has conviction overturned The China Project: A 'second Gui Minhai'? Taiwan publisher's arrest in China sets off alarms PEN International: PEN International and PEN America denounce the removal of books from Hong Kong's public libraries The Scholarly Kitchen: The Publishing Community Should More Actively Oppose Book Bans Sustainability WIPO: Intellectual Property Will Play Critical Role in the Achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals   Accessibility WIPO ABC: The Accessible Books Consortium is now accepting Fellowship applications! Diversity and Inclusion PublisHer: Quarter 2 Newsletter Börsenblatt: Im Juni ist Regenbogenzeit Literacy UNESCO: Call for nominations – 2023 UNESCO International Literacy Prizes To Come June 7 – 9 June: Readmagine 23 14-18 June: Seoul International Book Fair (registration open) 15 - 18 June: Beijing International Book Fair 19 - 23 June: Digital Publishing Summit 21 June: EEPG open conference on Inclusivity and accessibility in K12 education, Torino 22 - 25 June: Book Arsenal, Kyiv September 4 - 6 September: Forum Edita, Barcelona 20 – 22 September: Babelica - international online book fair of independent publishing October 4 – 6 October: Liber, Madrid 18 - 22 October: Frankfurt Book Fair November 6 – 8 November: WIPO SCCR 44 21 November: IPA General Assembly See our full book fair listing on our site here. IPA's websites 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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