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South Africa – Defective Copyright and Performers Protection Act Amendment Bills still hang in the balance
On 11 and 12 August extensive hearings were held in the Portfolio Committee of Trade and Industry in the South African Parliament, after a call for submissions. Read more. | | |  | | Canada Supreme Court judgement sees authors and publishers urge copyright reform On Friday 30 July the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) issued its judgement in the York v Access Copyright case, deciding that certified tariffs are not mandatory in a blow to the collective administration of copyright in Canada. The judgement drew disappointed and critical reactions from authors and publishers, and mounting calls for urgent legislative reform to fix a broken system. Read more. | | | | | Creative Industry Statistics for Africa in the spotlight at WIPO-ARIPO workshop IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, joined representatves from the music and film sectors, in presenting the importance of gathering data on the creative industries to an audience of Member States of the African Regional Intellectual Property Office (ARIPO) at the WIPO-convened workshop, On Building National Capacity for Analysis of Creative Industries. Read more. | | | Charles Clark Memorial Lecture returns with double-header and AI focus Judge Kathleen O'Malley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and British author Tom Chatfield, will deliver the 2021 Charles Clark Memorial Lecture at 3pm CEST on Wednesday 29 September. Read more. | | | IPA to celebrate International Translation Day with special webinar 30 September is International Translation Day and IPA has brought together an exciting group of speakers to look at the global landscape for translation rights through the perspectives of authors, publishers and translation funds from Italy, Brazil, Georgia and the UAE. Read more. | | | Finalists Announced for the 2021 Accessible Books Consortium International Excellence Award
The shortlist for the 2021 ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing has been posted. The WIPO led Accessible Books Consortium will unveil the names of the winners at the awards ceremony to be held at the Frankfurter Buchmesse on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. Read more. | | | Life Below Water: Sustainable Development Goal 14 Reading List On August 31st, 2021, the newest reading list for the UN Sustainable Development Goals Book Club was announced. The books, which are in all six official UN languages, cover SDG 14 – life below water. Read more. | | | IPA in the news Publishing Perspectives covered the milestone of 100 signatories of the SDG Publishers Compact.
Actualitté covered the African Publishing Innovation Fund.
In previewing plans for the second edition of Jakarta Content Week "JakTent", Publishing Perspectives notes that the 33rd edition of the International Publishers Congress will take place during 2022 edition. Look out for more news on our Jakarta Congress and the 2021 JakTent programme soon.
Publishers Weekly quoted both Kristenn Einarsson (Chair of IPA's Freedom to Publish Committee) and Michiel Kolman (Chair of IPA's Inclusive Publishing and Literacy Committee) in its article on Censorship on the Rise Worldwide.
IPA President, Bodour Al Qasimi delivered a keynote at the Publishers Association of New Zealand international conference which was unfortunately impacted by lockdown.
Al Qasimi's keynote at the Nigeria International Book Fair was covered in Vanguard in a detailed article on the fair.
Al Qasimi also featured in the latest edition of the Klopotek podcast.
You can read IPA President, Bodour Al Qasimi's latest Medium post on the challenges and opportunities in global publishing in the post-pandemic world here. | | | We have started trialling biannual newsletters in biannual newsletters in Arabic, French, and Spanish in addition to our regular monthly English newsletter. Read our first newsletters at the links below: To sign up for future editions update your language preferences: https://international-publishers-association.mailchimpsites.com/manage/preferences?u=914a89e2e13ccd381d1c47e5d&id=fc11f8b022&e=d44a4dc75d&c=5f36d3fd50 | |  | | Watch IPA's mini-documentary to celebrate our 125th anniversary. | | | 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 this month we marked our 125th anniversary. We have opened our celebrations with a special anniversary logo, a beautiful mini-documentary talking to many IPA Past-Presidents and digitising our Centenary book for the first time. You can find all of these on our anniversary website: | | Copyright Freedom to Publish - HowlRound – Shuddhashar publisher and editor Tutul talks about freedom of expression
Diversity and Inclusion - British Vogue – What will it take to eliminate racism in the publishing world
Sustainability Industry
| | To Come 3 – 5 September – Virtual Delhi Book Fair
6 – 7 September – VI Forum EDITA (including full interpretation in English)
8 September – International Literacy Day
10 – 12 September – 37th IBBY World Congress
30 September – International Translations Day
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