Earlier today two of the European Parliament committees, Culture and Education (CULT) and Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) voted for authors to have an unwaivable right to fair remuneration. This …
IAF meets Suomen Tietokirjailijat (The Finnish association of Non-Fiction Writers)
Barbara Hayes and Luke Alcott caught from the IAF met with Jukka-Pekka Pietiäinen, Executive Director of the association of Finnish Non-Fiction Writers (Suomen Tietokirjailijat) during a recent conference in Finland …
IAF meeting in Helsinki
At the IAF Meeting in Helsinki, members heard updates from Barbara Hayes and Luke Alcott on the work of the IAF since the AGM and from Jim Parker of PLR …
Public Lending Right for ebooks now a reality in the UK
IAF members Society of Authors (SoA) and the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) have long been lobbying for the extension of Public Lending Right (PLR) to allow authors to …
Welcome to our new members from Iceland!
IAF would like to extend a very warm welcome to our new members The Writers’ Union of Iceland (RSÍ). RSÍ is a professional organisation for authors founded in 1974. They …
Celebrating Malawi’s creative sector at WIPO
On 1st May 2017, the International Authors Forum (IAF) along with our partners Public Lending Right International (PLRI), supported an event at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva, …
Spanish intellectual property rights organisations, AIE, AISGE, CEDRO, DAMA, EGEDA, SGAE and VEGAP, lodge complaint with European Commission against the Spanish State
A complaint had been filed with the European Commission against the Spanish State by AIE, AISGE, CEDRO, DAMA, EGEDA, SGAE and VEGAP. These are organisations that manage the intellectual property …