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The 23rd session of the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) ended on 2nd December 2011. IFLA and library and archive organisations welcome the significant progress made by WIPO Member States towards achieving a global set of copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives.
The Entresse Library in Espoo, Finland and FAIFE have together created the world's first Banned Books video calendar.
The 23rd session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights continued at WIPO over the weekend. Discussion on Saturday concerned a proposed WIPO Draft Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organisations. On Monday two new documents were introduced: a ‘Working Document on an International Instrument on Limitations for Persons with Print Disabilities’ and a ‘Draft Compilation on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives’.
During the WIPO SCCR discussions on an instrument for the visually impaired, the library community strongly supported a treaty for person with print disabilities. Read their statements.
Three additional working days of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) ended yesterday in Geneva with great progress made regarding copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives. Delegates from WIPO’s Member States discussed the issues facing for libraries and archives. During the discussions ten work ‘clusters’ had been identified by member states.
Librarians all over the world are well aware of their profession’s ethical implications. In more than 60 countries library associations have developed and approved a national code of ethics for librarians. FAIFE has collected nearly 40 of them and makes them available in the list “Professional Codes of Ethics for Librarians”.
A delegation from the world’s leading library and archive organisations held a meeting with WIPO Director General Francis Gurry on Tuesday afternoon. The delegation discussed the copyright issues facing libraries and archives with the WIPO DG.
In a statement to the WIPO Copyright Committee, Ingrid Parent, IFLA President, highlighted the importance of an updated copyright framework for libraries in the digital age.
The Brazilian delegation at WIPO introduced a background paper written by IFLA, ICA, EIFL and INNOVARTE on the issues libraries and archives are facing.
The World Intellectual Property Organisation's Copyright Committee discusses copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives. IFLA advocates for an international legal instrument that would bring the international copyright framework for libraries into the digital age.
inviting bids from IFLA Members to host the 13th IFLA Interlending and Document Supply (ILDS) Conference to be held in September or October 2013
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Are you involved in an interesting project or in an area of work that you would like to discuss with or show to other congress attendees? Why not present your work in the IFLA Poster Session?
After general announcements for IFLA-supported conference participation grants for San Juan were made in spring 2011, we received over 250 applications from all over the world.
A short report on the recent successful symposium...
Following the endorsement of IFLA's statement on open access by the Governing Board, April 18th 2011—and the subsequent approval from the Governing Board during the WLIC in Puerto Rico August 2011 of a number of key initiatives—IFLA's Open Access Taskforce has been established.
I hope that you have all returned safely home after our recent World Library and Information Congress held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Some of you may have encountered Hurricane Irene in your travels (and I am grateful that the world’s meteorological society named it Irene and not Ingrid). I have always said that every IFLA conference is memorable in some way!
During the Closing Session in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 18 August, IFLA President Ellen Tise officially announced the host location for the 2013 World Library and Information Congress