Content tagged Copyright
Ordered by publication date from most to less recent.
(These results include any available translations of the original English documents.)
- WIPO Member States Meet to Choose a New Director General
This week, the Coordinating Committee of the World Intellectual Property Organization meets to take a provisional decision on a new Director General. Getting the right candidate could provide...
News - 4 March 2020
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA Submission to US Trade Representative on the Review of South Africa’s Position under the Generalized System of Preferences
IFLA has submitted a comment in the context of the review of whether South Africa should continue to benefit from preferential trade rules with the United States. The review has been triggered by...
Publication - 19 January 2020
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, copyright4libraries, South Africa, United States of America, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Protecting Exceptions: New Survey of Legislation Safeguarding the Rights of Libraries and their Users
A major advance in the most recent European copyright reform has been the inclusion of a ‘contract override’ provision for most of the new copyright exceptions. This addresses...
Publication - 26 November 2019
Tags: Access to information, contractual override, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Progress on Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright in Latin America and the Caribbean
The third and final WIPO regional seminar on exceptions and limitations took place in Santo Domingo on 4-5 July. It looked into the copyright rules that define whether libraries, archives,...
News - 15 July 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Dominican Republic, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- A Solid Start: Asia-Pacific Government Representatives Stress Need for International Action for Libraries at Singapore Workshop
The first of three WIPO regional workshops focusing on the copyright needs of libraries, as well as archives, museums, education and research, took place in Singapore on 29-30 April. The...
News - 1 May 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Singapore, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Copyright in the Asia-Pacific Region: the Right Rules for Libraries?
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is organising three regional seminars to understand how far copyright rules meet the needs of libraries around the world. The first one starts...
News - 27 April 2019
Tags: Access to information, Asia and Oceania, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- XVII International Conference on University Libraries
The General Directorate for Libraries of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is organising its XVII International Conference on University Libraries around the general theme...
Event - 24 April 2019
Tags: Conference, Copyright, data protection, Mexico, Open access, Open education, Open science
- A Unique Role - A Real Need: Libraries, Archives, Museums and Exceptions to Copyright
Through two events at the World Intellectual Property Organisation, IFLA helped explore the indispensable – and undisputed – role of exceptions and limitations in achieving the public...
News - 2 April 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- EU Copyright Directive Adopted: The Fight for Libraries and Freedom of Speech Passes to the National Level
Today, the Plenary of the European Parliament adopted the Copyright Directive by a significantly reduced margin compared to previous votes. It will now be for libraries at the national level to...
News - 26 March 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Europe, Freedom of expression, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Access under Threat: IFLA Underlines the Risks Posed by Article 13
Next week’s vote on the European Union’s Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market is an opportunity to advance the situation of libraries. But unless an Article which would...
News - 24 March 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Europe, Freedom of expression, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Briefing: WIPO Best Practice Guide on Collective Management Organisations
The World Intellectual Property Organisation has published a best practice toolkit on collective management organisations. This brief offers an overview of the toolkit, and suggests how it can be...
Publication - 25 November 2018
Tags: Access to knowledge, collective management, Copyright, WIPO, Briefings, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- WIPO Broadcasting Treaty - IFLA Briefing
The World Intellectual Property Organisaiton is currently negotiating a draft treaty on broadcasting. This would give greater rights to broadcasters to protect their signals, in response...
Publication - 3 October 2018
Tags: Access to information, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Briefings, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Creative Commons Update: IFLA WLIC 2018
With a shared commitment to acces to knowlede, the Creative Commons movement already includes many librarians. The IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2018 provided an...
Publication - 29 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Getting Started: New IFLA Guide on Making the Marrakesh Treaty Real
The Marrakesh Treaty has already had a major impact on copyright legislation, removing legal barriers to making and sharing copies of books in accessible formats. But to ensure that people with...
News - 27 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to information, Copyright, Copyright, From the Annual Conference, Libraries serving persons with print disabilities, Marrakesh Treaty, Services to people with disabilities, Services to the visually impaired, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA Statement on Copyright Education and Copyright Literacy (2018)
Copyright has a decisive role on what libraries and their users can do with works to which they have access. However, librarians' knowledge of the law can play just as important a role,...
Publication - 27 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright Literacy, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Article 13 and Its Implications for Freedom of Expression
Article 13 is a key element of the EU draft Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. As such, it needs careful analysis and consideration given the threats it poses...
Publication - 3 July 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Copyright, Copyright, Europe, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Briefings, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Out of Commerce Works - the Case for an Exception
As part of IFLA's work, alongside partner organisations, in favour of copyright reform in Europe, we have produced an infographic. This serves as a briefing note on the need to an...
Publication - 16 December 2017
Tags: Copyright, Europe, Orphan works, out of commerce works, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Toolkits
- Getting Copyright Right in Viet Nam: IFLA Speaks at WIPO Event
Like all aspects of government policy, copyright laws should serve to promote the long-term public interest. It is essential to ensure that creators receive fair compensation. But it is also...
News - 14 December 2017
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Preservation, Viet Nam, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- With Strong Libraries, Everyone Can Learn: Cameroonian Librarians Engage at WIPO Conference
Around the world, libraries are at the heart of education institutions, giving access to the materials students and teachers need. This role is as crucial in Africa as elsewhere, given that for...
News - 12 December 2017
Tags: Access to knowledge, Cameroon, Copyright, Education, WIPO
- :كيف يُمكن أن تُتيح الرخصة الوصول إلى المعلومة وتُعيقه في الوقت نفسه
إصدار "تقييم استخدام مبدأ الترخيص في مجال المكتبات والعوائق الذي يضعها ذلك في طريق إتاحة المعلومات" تمر وسائل حصول المكتبات على المعلومة بمرحلة...
News - 21 August 2017
Tags: Copyright, From the Annual Conference, Licensing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- How licenses give access, but can also take it away
Release of the “Literature review on the use of licensing in library context, and the limitations this creates to access to knowledge” The way...
News - 21 August 2017
Tags: Copyright, From the Annual Conference, licensing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- 数字资源访问许可如何提供资源获取路径，却又可以封锁路径
《关于图书馆使用数字资源访问许可及其为知识获取所带来之限制的文献评论》发布》 当前正是图书馆获取内容方式的转型期。随着数字资源在图书馆馆藏资源中所占比重的上升，数字资源访问许可已成为生活中存在的一个事实。但是，正如图书馆界大多数所经历的那样，访问许可在提供知识获取路径的同时，也能限制知识获取。 因此，...
News - 21 August 2017
Tags: Copyright, From the Annual Conference, Licensing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Wie Lizenzen Zugriff ermöglichen, aber auch verwehren können
Veröffentlichung von “Literaturüberblick über den Einsatz von Lizenzen im Bibliothekskontext und den Einschränkungen, die sie für den...
News - 21 August 2017
Tags: Copyright, From the Annual Conference, Licensing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Las licencias te dan acceso pero también te lo pueden quitar
Publicación de la “Revisión bibliográfica sobre el uso de las licencias en el contexto de las bibliotecas y las limitaciones que crean para acceder...
News - 21 August 2017
Tags: Copyright, From the Annual Conference, Licensing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Как лицензии не только предоставляют доступ, но и могут его отнять
Релиз «Обзора литературы об использовании лицензий в контексте библиотек и ограничений, которые они накладывают на доступ к знанию» Библиотеки переживают...
News - 21 August 2017
Tags: Copyright, From the Annual Conference, Licensing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Comment les licences d’utilisation facilitent l’accès – mais peuvent aussi l’empêcher
Publication de la “Revue de la littérature disponible sur l’utilisation des licences dans le contexte des bibliothèques, et sur les limitations ainsi...
News - 21 August 2017
Tags: Copyright, From the Annual Conference, Licensing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Open Education Seminar
IFLA will attend a seminar organised by Education International, looking at new approaches to use of intellectual property rules in teaching and learning. Exploring themes such as Open Educational...
Event - 25 July 2017
Tags: Belgium, Copyright, Education, Open access, Seminar, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Internet Governance Forum 2016 Library Diary: Day 1
December 6 was the official first day of the Internet Governance Forum in Guadalajara. Team libraries participated in Assessing the Role of Internet Governance in the Sustainable...
News - 8 December 2016
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, IGF, igf2016, Internet governance, Public Access, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
- WIPO General Assembly
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) holds its General Assembly on 3-11 October 2016. IFLA will be there, calling for continued work on copyight limitations for libraries,...
Event - 2 October 2016
Tags: Access to knowledge, Conference, Copyright, Marrakesh Treaty, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- A Better Balance is Possible – Looking to the Future at WIPO
Starting tomorrow, the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organisation will meet together in Geneva. This event – the General Assembly – will see ministers and heads of...
News - 2 October 2016
Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Marrakesh Treaty, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Major Step for Access to Knowledge for Visually Impaired
Canada's ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty starts the clock ticking towards its entry into force, giving some of the most vulnerable people in the world much wider access to works of...
News - 30 June 2016
Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Services to the visually impaired, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Un grand pas en avant en matière de l’accès au savoir pour les déficients visuels
La ratification canadienne du Traité de Marrakech signifie que la date de son entrée en force est maintenant fixée pour le 30 septembre. Ce Traité...
News - 30 June 2016
Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Services to the visually impaired, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA co-signs Brussels Declaration on Trade and the Internet for international trading systems reform
On 22 February 2016, IFLA co-signed the Brussels Declaration on Trade and the Internet in support of sustainable, transparent, accountable and democratic international trading systems. The...
News - 22 February 2016
Tags: Belgium, Brussels, CLM, Copyright, Copyright, Development, Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)
- 2014 Webinar Series for Latin America and the Caribbean
For more than three years IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL) and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group have presented successful webinars on topics of...
News - 29 October 2014
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, CPDWL, IFLA Trend Report, LAC, Latin America and the Caribbean, NPSIG, Webinars, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Copyright and libraries: why it is important to stay informed, 1st session in Portuguese
Participate in an online series of five sessions (in Portuguese and in Spanish) lead by copyright experts presenting an overview of the situation in Latin America and the Caribbean, recent...
Event - 20 October 2014
Tags: Copyright, Copyright, LAC, Latin America and the Caribbean, Latin America and the Caribbean Section, Libraries, NPSIG, Webinar, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- Libraries and archives prepare for tense copyright negotiations in Geneva
Copyright negotiations commence once more in Geneva, Switzerland next week at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), where a proposed international framework supporting copyright...
News - 26 June 2014
Tags: Copyright, Copyright, SCCR, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA attends Informal Session and Special Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, 18-20 April 2013
The WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) met for its second special session (SCCR/SS/GE/2/13) last week to undertake further work on the draft negotiating text...
News - 25 April 2013
Tags: Copyright, SCCR, Switzerland
- Reflections from the Leipzig Bookfair
Gerald Leitner, member of the IFLA Governing Board and the ELending Working Group, spoke at the Leipzig Bookfair about the challenges faced by libraries with regards to EBooks. He...
News - 21 March 2013
Tags: Advocacy, Copyright, Ebooks, Germany
- The IFLA Position on The World Trade Organization (2001)
中文 Introduction The World Trade Organization (WTO), with a growing membership of over 140 countries, oversees a variety of treaties governing international trade. The WTO...
Informational Page - 11 January 2013
Tags: Copyright, World Trade Organization (WTO), CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Die IFLA-Position zur World Trade Organization (2001)
中文 Einführung Die Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) hat eine wachsende Mitgliederbasis von über 140 Ländern und überwacht eine Vielzahl von Verträgen zur...
Informational Page - 11 January 2013
Tags: Copyright, World Trade Organization (WTO), CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA Written Statement to the European Commission hearing on the Google Book Settlement (2009)
English | français IFLA is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the...
Informational Page - 11 January 2013
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Digitisation, Google Book Settlement, Intellectual property, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA Position on the Google Book Settlement (2009)
English | français The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is committed to the principles of freedom of access to information...
Informational Page - 11 January 2013
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Digitisation, Google Book Settlement, Intellectual property, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA ILP: Project 1: Copyright Exceptions and Limitations at WIPO
Description IFLA is advocating for copyright reform at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). IFLA is working with WIPO Member States to gain support for a binding...
Informational Page - 15 May 2012
Tags: Advocacy, ALP (Action for Development through Libraries Programme), Collaboration, Copyright, IFLA International Leaders Programme, leadership, LDP (Library Development Programme)