Authors Left Without an Effective Industry Champion The International Authors Forum (IAF) is concerned at the news that Canada’s longstanding copyright licensing collective, Access Copyright, will be cutting staff positions …
Threatening Copyright and Livelihoods: The South African Copyright Amendment Bill
Keyan G Tomaselli and Hetta Pieterse, Academic and Non-Fiction Authors’ Association of South Africa Copyright issues have veered sharply off course over the past seven years, starting with Cabinet’s approval …
The Tree to Me Initiative
The UK Society of Authors is encouraging all sister organisations to adopt and share the Tree to Me initiative. Launched in April 2023, Tree to Me is an awareness raising …
Update from Internet the Archive Case
The Internet Archive has for some time digitised huge amounts of books per year and shared them without the consent or compensation of authors. It previously drew criticism from a …
The Artist’s Resale Right rates finally begins in Mexico
Visual artists of Mexico have a reason to celebrate as after almost 20 years of fighting for the recognition of their right to benefit from the resale of their works, …
Statement by TWUC: Parliament must end Canada’s Copyright Crisis
The Writers Union of Canada has responded to the Supreme Court Decision on the case of York University, et al. v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (“Access Copyright”), et al. ‘After …
Canada Copyright Case continues to Supreme Court
The International Authors Forum (IAF) will be intervening in the case of York University, et al. v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (“Access Copyright”), et al. at Canada’s Supreme Court. The …
US enforces streamlined small-claims for copyright cases
In December 2020, US Congress passed both the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act and the Protecting Lawful Streaming Act as part of a year-end legislative package, including Covid-19 …
IAF at Guadalajara Book Fair
On 3 December 2020, during the special edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico, three authors, Felene Cayetano from Belize, Carlos Wynter Melo from Panama and Jorge Comensal …