International Publishers Association - IPA

What does freedom of expression mean to you personally? What do you perceive as the greatest challenge to freedom of expression? What can publishers around the world do to promote freedom of expression? ❔ Together with International Publishers Association - IPA, we asked publishing voices from different parts of the world for their perspectives on these questions as part of Freedom of Expression Week (3-10 May). 🗨 Urvashi Butalia is a publisher and author from India with over 35 years of experience in feminist and independent publishing and a long history of involvement in the Indian women's movement. Her perspective on the question, “What do you perceive as the greatest challenge to freedom of expression?” is: It's always difficult to define one thing as the 'greatest' challenge to anything. There are many challenges to freedom of expression: foremost among these is the assumption, widespread in our world, that someone else has the right to decide how freely you can speak. A linked challenge (and not necessarily lesser in any way) is the fear and insecurity among those in power to allow voices, hitherto marginalized, to speak out. For centuries men have feared women speaking out and so they have tried to silence their voices. For centuries ruling classes have feared the voices of the oppressed, and so they have silenced them. 📑 You can read Urvashi Butalia's perspective on the other questions in the article on our website: https://lnkd.in/eUmaZi5K

A great program shaping up for the International Publishers Association - IPA Congress in December. This is an event no publisher should miss. https://lnkd.in/emFsmaWk

IPA April Newsletter: Congress speakers and programme announced, a review of World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (#SCCR45), #WorldBookDay and #WorldIPday, Freedom to Publish statement on Hong Kong with EIBF, a great blog post on Accessibility EPub and Adobe by Laura Brady, Literacy news from Syndicat national de l'édition (SNE) and Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V. and statistics from Publishers' Association of South Africa (PASA) and a comprehensive report on publishing in Africa from Hans Zell. Read on: https://lnkd.in/dJVRtJRf  #WorldBookDay2024 #WorldIPday #copyright #FreedomToPublish #a11y #literacy

There is still time to register for the International Publishers Association - IPA significant 34th International Publishers Congress at the early bird rate. Until 30 April. Don’t miss the chance to participate! https://lnkd.in/e4P7jFCR

On #WorldIPDay we are joining The Authors Guild and News/Media Alliance to call on Generative AI platforms to respect the creativity and investment of authors and publishers #copyright and to license the books in their training datasets. Read our OpEd below:

Happy #WorldIPday! This year’s theme is the #SDGs! The book sector supports the Goals through the books it publishes and the way they conduct themselves as businesses. Check out our SDG Dashboard for all the work publishers are doing https://lnkd.in/en9udPUt World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO

Para mostrar ao mundo um pouco mais do nosso amor pela leitura, a Abrelivros se une ao SNEL - Sindicato Nacional dos Editores de Livros, à Câmara Brasileira do Livro e à International Publishers Association - IPA e a outros representantes do meio editorial para festejar o Dia Mundial do Livro. Se você se sente "endorfinado" ao entrar em uma livraria, ou se tieta escritores em eventos literários, entre outras manifestações de amor pelos livros, então você é "gente como a gente" — é gente que ama livro! Um feliz Dia Mundial do Livro para todos! #diamundialdolivro2024 #worldbookday2024 #cbl #ipa #snel #gentequeamalivro #DiaMundialdoLivro #Abrelivros

O livro desperta paixões, manifestadas das mais diversas formas. Seja quando o abrimos e ficamos arrepiados com o cheiro, seja quando entramos em polêmicas literárias a respeito de um livro escrito há 125 anos, ou quando lemos um título antes de dormir, para garantir uma noite de sono perfeita. Se você se sente “endorfinado” quando entra em uma livraria, tieta escritores em eventos literários ou troca o scrool das redes sociais por uma virada de página, entre outras manifestações de amor pela leitura, então você é “gente como a gente”, é gente que ama livro! Hoje, dia 23 de abril, Dia Mundial do Livro, a @cbloficial, o @sneloficial, a @intpublishers e outros players do mercado editorial fazem um convite para você mostrar ao mundo um pouco desse amor. Nos nossos stories, você encontra modelos para compartilhar uma foto sua e revelar para os seus amigos que você é “Gente como a gente. Gente que ama livro”. Não deixe de marcar os nossos perfis para compartilharmos o seu registro dessa paixão e levarmos essa corrente para mais pessoas. Se você reconheceu algum amigo nas nossas frases do carrossel, não deixe de marcá-lo nos comentários. Um feliz Dia Mundial do Livro para todos! #diamundialdolivro2024 #worldbookday2024 #cbl #ipa #snel #gentequeamalivro #PraCegoVer A sequência de artes com fundo em cores variadas traz os dizeres: “Dia Mundial do Livro 2024” e os logos da CBL, do SNEL e da IPA, além de diversas frases relacionadas ao universo dos livros, terminando com a frase “Gente como a gente. Gente que ama livro.” Sevani de Matos Oliveira, Fernanda Gomes Garcia, SNEL - Sindicato Nacional dos Editores de Livros, International Publishers Association - IPA, Associacao Brasileira Dos Autores De Livros Educ Abrale, ABDR - Associação Brasileira de Direitos Reprográficos, ABIGRAF, Abrelivros, Instituto Pró Livro

🌍 Today, we celebrate #WorldBookDay with the adoption of the report on "Combating late payment in commercial transactions" by the European Parliament! 📚 The adopted report contains crucial amendments to the European Commission’s original proposal that exclude the #book sector from the scope of the #LatePaymentRegulation, recognising its unique structure and the essential need for flexible payment terms to ensure a rich and diverse literary landscape across Europe. 📃 #MEPs stood along with the book sector and recognised the peculiar position of books as slow-moving goods and cultural products! 🗨 Ricardo Franco Levi, President of #FEP, declared: “On World Book Day, the European Parliament made a very important decision, towards ensuring that Europe maintains a rich and diverse literary landscape, where independent booksellers and publishers can thrive. We call on Member States to uphold this vital result during the trilogue negotiations. In the meantime, I would like to thank all MEPs who supported us, all our colleagues from the national PAs, as well as the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) and the European Writers' Council (EWC), who joined forces with FEP and helped us voice how important this matter is for our sector.” Read our full press release 👉 https://lnkd.in/eCkNGZmd

Visste du att de stora AI-verktygen tränas på upphovsrättsskyddade texter utan att rättighetshavarna får ersättning? Världsbokdagen är här och vi vill passa på att uppmärksamma upphovsrätten och vikten av en licensmodell för AI-träning på böcker. - Idag firar vi Världsbokdagen. En dag som denna är jag extra stolt över att arbeta i en bransch full av människor som tar fram och förvaltar fantastiska berättelser och omvälvande läsupplevelser. En nyckel till en hållbar bokbransch är att alla rättighetshavare får ersättning när deras verk används vid utveckling av AI-verktyg. Därför är det både viktigt och brådskande att ta fram en licensmodell för AI-träning, säger Mikaela Zabrodsky, vd Svenska Förläggareföreningen.