In conjunction with the inaugural Canadian Writers’ Summit taking place June 15-19, 2016 at Harbourfront in Toronto, The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) is launching its #WhyWritersMatter Campaign. Canadian writers …
International Authors Forum at Brussells 2016
Report of the meeting The International Authors Forum met in Brussels on 30 May 2016. In the absence of John Degen, IAF’s Chair, Owen Atkinson, Treasurer on the IAF Steering …
WIPO SCCR 32
Informative study on national solutions for providing access to education within current international copyright framework at WIPO Copyright Committee Monday 9th – Friday 13th May 2016 IAF, represented by Katie …
Nigerian authors become part of IAF
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 …
IAF represented at WIPO Conference on the Global Digital Content Market
Authors Maureen Duffy (UK) and Dr Federico Polak at WIPO Global Digital Content Market conference April 2016 (Argentina) represented authors at a conference hosted by WIPO in Geneva from April 20th – 22nd …
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. …