The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has joined the International Authors Forum Representing 1,000 Nigerian authors at home and abroad, the association exists to pursue the following aims: To promote …
Australia: (Un)fair dealings from the Productivity Commission Report
(Originally posted on the Australian Society of Authors’ website: 29th April 2016) There is nothing fair about the recommendations in the Productivity Commission’s draft report into Intellectual Property Arrangements, which …
IAF meets authors and members at Salon du Livre, Paris 2016
FUIS, the Italian Writers’ Union and IAF member, invited Katie Webb to represent IAF as its guest at the Salon du Livre, the International Book Fair in Paris. Of the many …
IAF asks Canadian Ministers to remedy damage to authors’ rights and incomes due to educational copyright exceptions
The members of the International Authors Forum (IAF) – 57 organisations representing over 600,000 individual creators worldwide – have written to Government Ministers in Canada. They ask them to take …
US: Supreme Court Declines to Review Fair Use Finding in Decade-Long Book Copying Case Against Google
NEW YORK, NY, April 18, 2016 — The Authors Guild expressed its disappointment with today’s U.S. Supreme Court order denying review of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Authors Guild v. …
Swedish Supreme Court: Artists’ copyright for outdoor art also applies online
Sweden’s Supreme Court has found in favour of Bildupphovsrätt in an important matter of principle regarding the interpretation of a restriction in the Swedish Copyright Act. The dispute between Bildupphovsrätt …
IAF goes to Mexico City
In November 2015, the International Authors Forum visited Mexico, meeting authors from Mexico and a number of countries in Latin America Mexico City Our first event was at the Vasconcelos …