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Webinar de la IFLA sobre la reunión regional de la OMPI para América Latina y...
Una ley de derechos de autor adaptada al mundo digital y equilibrada es clave para que las bibliotecas puedan llevar a cabo su misión de interés público. Legislación obsoleta o inadecuada dificulta...
View ArticleWIPO Regional Seminars on Exceptions and Limitations
The World Intellectual Property Organisation is holding a series of regional seminars on copyright exceptions for libraries and others. Here we bring together the key background materals and reports...
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Progress on Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright in Latin America and the...
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, museums,...
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Promoting Access to Knowledge and Information: WIPO Members Affirm Role in...
From 30 September to 9 October 2019, the General Assemblies of the World Intellectual Property Organization took place in Geneva, Switzerland. WIPO is the United Nations agency responsible for...
View ArticleWhat They Said at SCCR 39
The latest meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) saw further discussions about how to get the best laws for...
View ArticleWIPO 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 helpful...
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WIPO Nominates Daren Tang as New Director General
The UN agency that manages the global intellectual property system – including copyright – has nominated a new Director General. As the current Chair of the organisation’s copyright committee – and as...
View ArticleIFLA Leads Open Letter on Intellectual Property and COVID-19
Faced with the urgent need to combat the COVID-19 Pandemic and its consequences, it is vital to ensure that intellectual property laws and practices do not become a blockage. IFLA, working with its...
View ArticleHeritage cannot wait in the face of climate change: IFLA welcomes signatures...
IFLA, and partner organisations have launched an open letter to mark World Intellectual Property Day, 26 April 2020, underlining the need for copyright laws to support, rather than hinder, efforts to...
View ArticleWIPO's General Assembly: Fifty-Second session
The main policy and decision making bodies of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) are the General Assembly and the Coordination Committee. Twenty Assemblies, and other bodies of the...
View ArticleWIPO's General Assembly: Fifty-second session
Today and tomorrow, the World Intellectual Property Organization will hold an extraordinary General Assembly, thorugh a written procedure in order to confirm the appointment of a new Director General,...
View Article61st Series of Meetings of the WIPO Assemblies
The 61st Series of Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) takes place from 21 to 29 September 2020, alongside other meetings such as the Marrakesh Treaty Assembly. This is the...
View ArticleGet Into… Guides
A key part of IFLA’s advocacy work is our engagement with international organisations and processes. These provide an opportunity to underline the role of libraries and call for laws, recommendations...
View Article40th Sesssion of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights
The 40th meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) takes place on 16-20 November 2020 in virtual format. As the first meeting...
View ArticleNeed for reform recognised, but action waits again: 41st session of the WIPO...
From 28 June to 1 July, IFLA participated in the 41st session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR41) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The session...
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